[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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  DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION AND 
               RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1995

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the conference report.
  Mr. HARKIN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that we return 
to the conference report.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. HARKIN. Madam President, we are now in a situation where we are 
ready for a vote on the conference report.
  I as the the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays are ordered, and the clerk will call the roll.
  The legsilative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Lieber- 
man] is necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 16, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 310 Leg.]

                                YEAS--83

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

                                NAYS--16

     Brown
     Conrad
     Craig
     Dole
     Faircloth
     Gramm
     Gregg
     Helms
     Hutchison
     Kempthorne
     Nickles
     Nunn
     Pressler
     Roth
     Smith
     Wallop

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Lieberman
       
  So the conference report was agreed to.
  Mr. HARKIN. Madam President, I move to reconsider the vote, and I 
move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
 Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I was unavoidably detained and 
therefore missed this vote on the Labor-HHS appropriations conference 
report. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' This conference 
report contains important funding for programs that are important to 
this country and to my home State of Connecticut--programs like LIHEAP, 
the child care block grant, Ryan White funding, job training and Head 
Start. I have been an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of these 
programs so I very much regret having missed this vote.
  Today I have been at home and at my synagogue, observing the Jewish 
holiday of Shemini Atzeres. I was en route to cast my vote on this 
measure but I regret that because of traffic congestion I did not 
arrive in time to cast my vote.
  Again, had I been present on this vote, I would have voted 
``aye.''
  Mr. DeCONCINI addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa has the floor.
  Mr. HARKIN. I yield the floor, Madam President.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona.
  Mr. DeCONCINI. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent I may proceed 
as if in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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