[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 40 (Thursday, March 21, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S2591]
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            WHITEWATER DEVELOPMENT CORP. AND RELATED MATTERS


                             cloture motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Faircloth). 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 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 legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. LOTT. I announce that the Senator from Vermont [Mr. Jeffords] is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. Kerrey] is 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 46, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 47 Leg.]

                                YEAS--52

     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
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Pressler
     Roth
     Santorum
     Shelby
     Simpson
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner

                                NAYS--46

     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
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Nunn
     Pell
     Pryor
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Simon
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Jeffords
     Kerrey
      
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 
46. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.

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