Goss to Head CIA

The Senate voted on 22 September 2004 to make the ex-CIA operative from Florida, Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Goss is the first new director since 1997.

He was confirmed by the Senate in a 77-17 vote. Those voting against the confirmation:

• Bingaman (D-NM)
• Byrd (D-WV)
• Clinton (D-NY)
• Conrad (D-ND)
• Corzine (D-NJ)
• Dodd (D-CT)
• Durbin (D-IL)
• Harkin (D-IA)
• Kennedy (D-MA)
• Lautenberg (D-NJ)
• Leahy (D-VT)
• Levin (D-MI)
• Reed (D-RI)
• Rockefeller (D-WV)
• Sarbanes (D-MD)
• Stabenow (D-MI)
• Wyden (D-OR)

Not voting:

• Akaka (D-HI)
• Edwards (D-NC)
• Jeffords (I-VT)
• Kerry (D-MA)
• Santorum (R-PA)
• Specter (R-PA)