[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 12, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S1808]
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    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1996--CONFERENCE REPORT


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion to invoke 
cloture on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2546, the DC 
appropriations bill.
  The 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 conference 
     report to accompany H.R. 2546, the D.C. Appropriations bill:
         Bob Dole, Trent Lott, Jesse Helms, Phil Gramm, Judd 
           Gregg, Dirk Kempthorne, Strom Thurmond, Olympia Snow, 
           Bob Smith, Dan Coats, Larry E. Craig, John Ashcroft, 
           Thad Cochran, Jon Kyl, Mark Hatfield, Robert F. 
           Bennett.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2546 be brought 
to a close? The yeas and nays are ordered under rule XXII, and the 
clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Leg.]

                                YEAS--56

     Abraham
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Brown
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cohen
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Faircloth
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hatch
     Hatfield
     Helms
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kyl
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Pressler
     Roth
     Santorum
     Shelby
     Simpson
     Smith
     Snowe
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner

                                NAYS--44

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Chafee
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Exon
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Graham
     Harkin
     Heflin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Nunn
     Pell
     Pryor
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Simon
     Specter
     Wellstone
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 
44. Three-fifths of the Senators not having voted in the affirmative, 
the motion is rejected.

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