I was reading the Judicial Committee Rules and it says that one of the YES votes must come from the Minority. There was a big tado about it a while back. Hatch commented on it.
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200303/032703d.html
Leahy:
"Rule IV... ‘The Chairman shall entertain a non-debatable motion to bring a matter before the Committee to a vote. If there is objection to bring the matter to a vote without further debate, a rollcall vote of the Committee shall be taken, and debate shall be terminated if the motion to bring the matter to a vote without further debate passes with ten votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the Minority.”
... Senator Hatch indicated that he had checked with the parliamentarians in advance, and he apparently concluded that since he had the raw power to ignore our Committee rule so long as all Republicans on the Committee stuck with him, he would do so. I understand that
the parliamentarians advised Senator Hatch that there is no enforcement mechanism for a violation of Committee rules and that the parliamentarians view Senate Committees as “autonomous.” "
Leahy did the same when he denied Shedd a vote: overrode by majority vote a rule of the Committee- also breaking his word to Thurmond at the same time.