[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S2386]
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            WHITEWATER DEVELOPMENT CORP. AND RELATED MATTERS


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gorton). Under the previous order, 
pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending 
cloture motion, which the clerk will report.
  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 the motion 
     to proceed to Senate Resolution 227, regarding the Whitewater 
     extension:
         Alfonse D'Amato, Dan Coats, Phil Gramm, Bob Smith, Mike 
           DeWine, Bill Roth, Bill Cohen, Jim Jeffords, R.F. 
           Bennett, John Warner, Larry Pressler, Spencer Abraham, 
           Conrad Burns, Al Simpson, John H. Chafee, Frank H. 
           Murkowski.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the motion to proceed to Senate Resolution 227 shall be 
brought to a close? The yeas and nays are required. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 47, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 45 Leg.]

                                YEAS--53

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

                                NAYS--47

     Akaka 
     Baucus 
     Biden 
     Bingaman 
     Boxer 
     Bradley 
     Breaux 
     Bryan 
     Bumpers 
     Byrd 
     Conrad 
     Daschle 
     Dodd 
     Dorgan 
     Exon 
     Feingold 
     Feinstein 
     Ford 
     Glenn 
     Graham 
     Harkin 
     Heflin 
     Hollings 
     Inouye 
     Johnston 
     Kennedy 
     Kerrey 
     Kerry 
     Kohl 
     Lautenberg 
     Leahy 
     Levin 
     Lieberman 
     Mikulski 
     Moseley-Braun 
     Moynihan 
     Murray 
     Nunn 
     Pell 
     Pryor 
     Reid 
     Robb 
     Rockefeller 
     Sarbanes 
     Simon 
     Wellstone 
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 
47. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senator 
from Arizona be permitted to speak for 15 minutes as in morning 
business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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