[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 135 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S11451]
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                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  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 the conference 
     report to accompany H.R. 2202, the illegal immigration reform 
     bill.
         Trent Lott, Richard Shelby, Jon Kyl, Craig Thomas, Bob 
           Bennett, Slade Gorton, Mark O. Hatfield, Sheila Frahm, 
           Orrin Hatch, Hank Brown, Dan Coats, Judd Gregg, Rod 
           Grams, Frank H. Murkowski, Al Simpson, and Don Nickles.

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the cloture 
vote occur on Monday, September 30, at a time to be determined by the 
majority leader, after consultation with the Democratic leader, and 
that the mandatory quorum under rule XXII be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, in view of this agreement that has been 
worked out, I would like to announce there will be no further votes 
tonight. I know that there are a number of very important events 
occurring. I wanted to give that notice to the Senators as early as 
possible.
  I have worked with Senator Daschle and Senator Kennedy to get an 
agreement to get this illegal immigration conference report considered. 
This will guarantee that we will get to a cloture vote on Monday, if 
necessary, and to final passage at a time after that, either Monday 
night or certainly not later than next Tuesday.
  In the meantime, we continue to hope, and, I believe, maybe agreement 
can be reached to work out a compromise so that the illegal immigration 
legislation can be included in the continuing resolution which will be 
connected to the Department of Defense conference report.
  There will be a meeting tonight, I think, at 9:30 of the Senators and 
Congressmen and administration officials who are interested in this 
area. We hope they can get it worked out and maybe it can be included 
in an agreed-to package tomorrow night just in case that doesn't 
happen. Illegal immigration is such an important issue in this country 
and people expect us to act on it.
  After the effort was made and agreement was reached to take out one 
provision that had been objected to by the President and others, we 
thought this legislation would move forward. It should. But there are 
some problems that are being expressed by the administration. We will 
work on those. If we don't get it worked out, we will have a cloture 
vote on Monday.

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