The Nation : Lyng OKd for Agriculture
The Senate voted 95 to 2 to confirm Richard E. Lyng as agriculture secretary. Only Sens. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) and Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D-Mich.) voted against Lyng, a California agribusinessman nominated by President Reagan to succeed John R. Block. Block resigned last month after five years on the job. Lyng, 67, was Block’s No. 2 official in the first four years of the Reagan Administration before resigning to start his own agriculture consulting and lobbying firm. Lyng was Reagan’s director of agriculture in California from 1967 to 1969.
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