[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 35 (Thursday, March 24, 1994)]
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     FEDERAL WORKFORCE RESTRUCTURING ACT OF 1994--CONFERENCE REPORT

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the conference report.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
  The question occurs on the conference report on H.R. 3345.
  The yeas and nays have been ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 99, nays 1, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 77 Leg.]

                                YEAS--99

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

                                NAYS--1

       
     Brown
       
  So the conference report was agreed to.
  Mr. DURENBERGER. Mr. President, I rise to briefly explain my reasons 
for voting against cloture on the Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994 
conference report.
  Let me say at the outset that there is strong sentiment in favor of 
Federal employee work force restructuring on both sides of the aisle. 
The disagreement is over where the savings realized from the 
restructuring will be dedicated.
  Many of my Republican colleagues favor dedicating the savings to the 
violent crime reduction trust fund that was first proposed in the 
Senate crime bill. Because this conference report does not dedicate its 
savings to the trust fund and there had been attempts to use this 
savings for other purposes, I did not vote to close off debate.
  At the time we were considering the crime bill, I expressed 
reservations about the method we used to create the violent crime 
reduction trust fund--late at night, in an emotionally charged 
atmosphere, with little thought or debate.
  Since that time, President Clinton and a growing number of bipartisan 
members in both Chambers of Congress have announced their support for 
the trust fund. Because it is now a near certainty that Congress will 
eventually adopt this trust fund, I feel that it is important that we 
find a way to pay for it. That is why I believed voting against closure 
was fiscally responsible.
  Once cloture was invoked, I did vote in favor of the buyout 
conference report, since I have strongly supported this important 
program to facilitate the very difficult task of restructuring the 
Government.
  Mr. GLENN. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the 
conference report was agreed to.
  Mr. FORD. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agree to.
  Mr. FORD addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kentucky.

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