[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 27 (Friday, March 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 11, 1994]
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                      NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS ACT

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.


                       vote on amendment no. 1497

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question occurs on amendment 1497 offered 
by the Senator from Idaho. The yeas and nays have been ordered. The 
clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Delaware [Mr. Biden], the 
Senator from Colorado [Mr. Campbell], the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. 
Dodd], the Senator from Iowa [Mr. Harkin], the Senator from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy], the Senator from Ohio [Mr. Metzenbaum], 
the Senator from Maryland [Ms. Mikulski], and the Senator from 
Pennsylvania [Mr. Wofford] are necessarily absent.
  Mr. SIMPSON. I announce that the Senator from Maine [Mr. Cohen], the 
Senator from New Mexico [Mr. Domenici], the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. 
Durenberger], the Senator from Texas [Mr. Gramm], the Senator from New 
Hampshire [Mr. Gregg], the Senator from Oregon [Mr. Hatfield], the 
Senator from Vermont [Mr. Jeffords], the Senator from Florida [Mr. 
Mack], the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Nickles], and the Senator from 
Wyoming [Mr. Wallop] are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Oregon [Mr. Hatfield] would vote ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Pryor). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber who desire to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 57 Leg.]

                                YEAS--82

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boren
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Brown
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Burns
     Byrd
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Danforth
     Daschle
     DeConcini
     Dole
     Dorgan
     Exon
     Faircloth
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Heflin
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mathews
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mitchell
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nunn
     Packwood
     Pell
     Pressler
     Pryor
     Reid
     Riegle
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Sasser
     Shelby
     Simon
     Simpson
     Smith
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thurmond
     Warner
     Wellstone

                                NAYS--0

                             NOT VOTING--18

     Biden
     Campbell
     Cohen
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Durenberger
     Gramm
     Gregg
     Harkin
     Hatfield
     Jeffords
     Kennedy
     Mack
     Metzenbaum
     Mikulski
     Nickles
     Wallop
     Wofford
  So the amendment (No. 1497) was agreed to.
  Mr. KEMPTHORNE. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. HOLLINGS. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.


                           amendment no. 1496

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pending question before the Senate is the 
amendment offered by the Senator from Colorado [Mr. Brown] amendment 
No. 1496.
  Mr. HOLLINGS. I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I may speak 
as if in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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