[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 28 (Tuesday, March 5, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S1511]
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    CUBAN LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC SOLIDARITY [LIBERTAD] ACT OF 1996--
                           CONFERENCE REPORT

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the conference report.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is now on agreeing to the 
conference report to accompany H.R. 927. The yeas and nays have been 
ordered. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. LOTT. I announce that the Senator from Indiana [Mr. Lugar] and 
the Senator from Delaware [Mr. Roth] are necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Hawaii [Mr. Inouye] and 
the Senator from Georgia [Mr. Nunn] are necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 74, nays 22, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 22 Leg.]

                                YEAS--74

     Abraham
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Brown
     Bryan
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cohen
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Exon
     Faircloth
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hatch
     Heflin
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Lautenberg
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Pressler
     Pryor
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Shelby
     Simpson
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--22

     Akaka
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Bumpers
     Chafee
     Dodd
     Feingold
     Harkin
     Hatfield
     Jeffords
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Leahy
     Levin
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Pell
     Simon
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Inouye
     Lugar
     Nunn
     Roth
  So the conference report was agreed to.
  Mr. COVERDELL. Mr. President, as manager of the conference report on 
H.R. 927 just adopted by the Senate, I ask unanimous consent to address 
the Senate for 1 minute.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Senator from Georgia is 
recognized.
  Mr. COVERDELL. Mr. President, I wish to thank Senator Helms, the 
chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and the majority leader, 
Senator Dole, for their leadership on this issue.
  I also wish to thank my fellow Senate conferees--Senators Thompson, 
Snowe, and Robb--for their relentless effort and willingness to work 
long hours to pass the conference report. Further, I wish to thank 
Senator Dodd for his knowledgeable input and management of the 
conference report on the floor, and for his willingness to bring this 
to closure even though he does not support the measure.
  In addition, I want to add my thanks to the staff involved in this 
conference report, especially Steve Schrage of my office, and Dan Fisk 
and Gina Marie Lichacz of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who 
worked diligently throughout the process to keep me fully briefed and 
prepared. I also wish to express my gratitude to Randy Scheunemann of 
the leader's office for his invaluable expertise, and to Janice 
O'Connell of Senator Dodd's staff for graciously working with us during 
floor consideration of this conference report. Finally, I wish to 
acknowledge all the other Senators and staff who made passage of the 
Libertad Act a reality.

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