[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 145 (Friday, October 7, 1994)]
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            CALIFORNIA DESERT PROTECTION ACT--CLOTURE MOTION

  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, the Senate is now debating the 
conference report on the California Desert Protection Act. I have been 
advised that it will be necessary to file a cloture motion to bring 
that debate to an end. And, accordingly, I now send a cloture motion to 
the desk and ask that it be stated.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The bill 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 the conference 
     report to accompany S. 21, the California Desert Protection 
     Act:
         Barbara Boxer, Byron L. Dorgan, Paul Wellstone, Pat 
           Leahy, George Mitchell, Paul Simon, Patty Murray, Tom 
           Harkin, Richard Bryan, Barbara Mikulski, Jeff Bingaman, 
           Don Riegle, Harris Wofford, John F. Kerry, Claiborne 
           Pell, Joseph Lieberman, Carl Levin, Dianne Feinstein.

  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, I will return to this matter in just a 
moment, as I discussed the matter with the distinguished Senator from 
Wyoming, and we will have a colloquy on that in a moment.
  In the meantime, however, I have also been advised by the Republican 
leader that it will be necessary to file cloture motions to bring to an 
end the debate on three nominations which are pending on the Executive 
Calendar. They all involve Air Force officers.
  First is Calendar No. 1280, the nomination of Lt. Gen. Buster C. 
Glosson; Calendar No. 1281, the nomination of Col. Claude M. Bolton, 
Jr.; and Calendar No. 1282, the nomination of Lt. Gen. Edward P. Barry, 
Jr.
  I note the presence on the floor of the distinguished Senator from 
Iowa, and I am advised that it will be necessary to file cloture 
motions to bring the debate on these nominations to an end, and I am 
prepared now to proceed to each of those nominations in order and file 
the cloture motions. Then I will be pleased to proceed to a colloquy 
with the Senator from Iowa immediately following my colloquy with the 
Senator from Wyoming, if that is agreeable to the Senator from Iowa.
  Mr. GRASSLEY. Yes.

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