[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 200 (Friday, December 15, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S18701-S18702]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996--CONFERENCE 
                                 REPORT


                           Motion To Proceed

  Mr. DOLE. I now move that the Chair lay before the Senate the 
conference report to accompany H.R. 1530, the Department of Defense 
authorization bill.
  Mr. LEAHY. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a 
sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. LOTT. I announce that the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. 
Faircloth], the Senator from Tennessee [Mr. Frist], the Senator from 
Texas [Mr. Gramm], the Senator from 

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Arizona [Mr. McCain], and the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. McConnell] are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Delaware [Mr. Biden], the 
Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Dodd], the Senator from Massachusetts 
[Mr. Kerry], the Senator from Maryland [Ms. Mikulski], and the Senator 
from West Virginia [Mr. Rockefeller] are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 66, nays 23, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 607 Leg.]

                                YEAS--66

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Breaux
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cohen
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Exon
     Feinstein
     Gorton
     Graham
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Heflin
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kerrey
     Kyl
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Nunn
     Pressler
     Reid
     Robb
     Roth
     Santorum
     Shelby
     Simpson
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner
     Wellstone

                                NAYS--23

     Baucus
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Brown
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Conrad
     Dorgan
     Feingold
     Ford
     Glenn
     Hatfield
     Kennedy
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Pell
     Pryor
     Sarbanes
     Simon

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Biden
     Dodd
     Faircloth
     Frist
     Gramm
     Kerry
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Rockefeller
  So, the motion was agreed to.

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