The Senate voted Friday to rescind a rule that would have required energy companies to report payments to foreign governments for the right to develop oil, gas and mineral assets, handing a victory to an industry that has spent nearly six years fighting the disclosures. Senators voted 52-47 to repeal the Securities and Exchange Commission regulation, taking advantage of a previously little-used law, the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to overturn agency rules. Using the same law, the Senate on…