[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 29, 1994)]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Clerk will 
report the motion to invoke cloture.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     hereby move to bring to a close the debate on Calendar No. 
     409, S. 687, a bill to regulate interstate commerce by 
     providing for a uniform product liability law:
         Jay Rockefeller, J. Lieberman, John Glenn, Claiborne 
           Pell, Bob Kerrey, J.J. Exon, Harlan Mathews, Slade 
           Gorton, Orrin G. Hatch, Strom Thurmond, Daniel Coats, 
           Judd Gregg, Dirk Kempthorne, Pete V. Domenici, Larry 
           Pressler, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Frank H. Murkowski.


                            call of the roll

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the quorum call has been 
waived.


                                  vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on S. 687, the product liability fairness bill, shall be 
brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are automatic under the rule, and the clerk will 
call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. METZENBAUM. Madam President, I have a pair with the distinguished 
Senator from Arizona [Mr. DeConcini]. If he were present and voting, he 
would vote ``yea.'' If I were at liberty to vote, I would vote ``nay.'' 
Therefore, I withhold my vote.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that on this vote, the Senator from Arizona [Mr. 
DeConcini] is paired with the Senator from Ohio [Mr. Metzenbaum].
  If present and voting, the Senator from Arizona would vote ``aye'' 
and the Senator from Ohio would vote ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
who desire to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 57, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 170 Leg.]

                                YEAS--57

     Bennett
     Bond
     Boren
     Brown
     Burns
     Byrd
     Chafee
     Coats
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Danforth
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durenberger
     Exon
     Faircloth
     Feinstein
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hatch
     Hatfield
     Helms
     Hutchison
     Jeffords
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kohl
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     Mathews
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Nunn
     Packwood
     Pell
     Pryor
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sasser
     Smith
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thurmond
     Wallop
     Warner

                                NAYS--41

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Campbell
     Cochran
     Cohen
     D'Amato
     Feingold
     Ford
     Graham
     Harkin
     Heflin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Johnston
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Mitchell
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Pressler
     Reid
     Riegle
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Shelby
     Simon
     Simpson
     Wellstone
     Wofford

       PRESENT AND GIVING A LIVE PAIR, AS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED--1

       
     Metzenbaum, against
       

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     DeConcini
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 57, the nays are 
41. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. HOLLINGS. Madam President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. HEFLIN. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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