[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 100 (Wednesday, July 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 27, 1994]
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                    IMPROVING AMERICA'S SCHOOLS ACT


                           Motion to Proceed

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the motion to proceed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is recognized.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, is the pending question the motion to 
proceed to the education bill?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on that 
motion.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the motion to 
proceed to S. 1513?
  If not, the question is on agreeing to the motion to proceed to the 
consideration of S. 1513. On this question, the yeas and nays have been 
ordered, and clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Iowa [Mr. Harkin], and the 
Senator from Maryland [Ms. Mikulski] are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 235 Leg.]

                                YEAS--98

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boren
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Brown
     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
     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
     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

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Harkin
     Mikulski
       
  So the motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair recognizes the Senator from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy].
  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, on behalf of myself and Senator Jeffords, 
I send a series of bipartisan amendments to the desk and ask they be 
adopted en bloc and they be considered as original text.

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