[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 120 (Thursday, September 5, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S9874]
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    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1997--CONFERENCE REPORT

  The Senate resumed consideration of the conference report.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now occurs on the conference 
report to accompany H.R. 3845, the appropriations for the District of 
Columbia. The yeas and nays have been ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Oregon [Mr. Hatfield] 
and the Senator from Alaska [Mr. Murkowski] are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Oregon [Mr. Hatfield] would vote ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 15, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 270 Leg.]

                                YEAS--83

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cohen
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Exon
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frahm
     Frist
     Glenn
     Graham
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Harkin
     Heflin
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Nickles
     Nunn
     Pell
     Pressler
     Pryor
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Simon
     Simpson
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--15

     Baucus
     Brown
     Burns
     Faircloth
     Feingold
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Hatch
     Helms
     Lautenberg
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Thomas
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Hatfield
     Murkowski
       
  So the conference report was agreed to.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which 
the conference report was agreed to, and I move to lay that motion on 
the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. LOTT addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, we are not in a quorum call, are we?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. No, we are not in a quorum call.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I am glad that we have adopted those two 
important appropriations conference reports.
  I would like for us to continue to move forward and try to make 
progress now on a series of amendments with regard to the VA-HUD 
appropriations bill.

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