[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 16 (Tuesday, February 6, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S906-S907]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time of the Senator has expired. 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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the substitute 
     amendment to S. 1541, the farm bill.
       Larry E. Craig, James M. Jeffords, Don Nickles, John H. 
     Chafee, Robert F. Bennett, Thad Cochran, Ted Stevens, Trent 
     Lott, Richard G. Lugar, Craig Thomas, Alan K. Simpson, John 
     W. Warner, Larry Pressler, Dan Coats, Connie Mack, Kay Bailey 
     Hutchison.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the substitute amendment numbered 1384 to Senate bill 
1541, the farm bill, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DOLE. I announce that the Senator from Texas [Mr. Gramm], the 
Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Lott], the Senator from Arizona [Mr. 
McCain], the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. Murkowski], and the Senator 
from New Hampshire [Mr. Smith] are necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Georgia [Mr. Nunn] and the 


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Senator from Nevada [Mr. Reid] are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any Senators in the Chamber desiring 
to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 59, nays 34, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 9 Leg.]

                                YEAS--59

     Abraham
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bond
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Brown
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cohen
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Faircloth
     Frist
     Gorton
     Graham
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hatch
     Hatfield
     Helms
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kerry
     Kyl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Moseley-Braun
     Nickles
     Pell
     Pressler
     Robb
     Roth
     Santorum
     Shelby
     Simpson
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner

                                NAYS--34

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Exon
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Harkin
     Heflin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kohl
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Mikulski
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Pryor
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Simon
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Gramm
     Lott
     McCain
     Murkowski
     Nunn
     Reid
     Smith
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 59, and the nays 
are 34. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn, not having 
voted in the affirmative, the motion to invoke cloture is rejected.
  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, the vote was 59 to 34. That would be short. 
Right?
  Mr. FORD. That is the way I calculate it.
  Mr. DOLE. We will have to decide. I will let the Democratic leader 
know whether we will have another cloture vote on Thursday. But I think 
it is pretty obvious that had our absentees been here, we would have 
had cloture, and we have pretty good bipartisan support. It seems to me 
that we are pretty close to a bipartisan resolution of this matter.
  I will let my colleagues know as soon as we can because I know some 
have plans and some would like to have plans.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. SANTORUM). The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. SIMON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. SIMON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 5 
minutes as in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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