[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 4, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5290-S5291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The hour of 4 p.m. having arrived, under the 
previous order, the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture.
  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 modified 
     committee amendment to Calendar No. 32, S. 4, the Family 
     Friendly Workplace Act of 1997:
         Trent Lott, James M. Jeffords, Sam Brownback, Susan M. 
           Collins, Fred Thompson, Gordon Smith, Judd Gregg, Jesse 
           Helms, John Ashcroft, Jon Kyl, Paul Coverdell, William 
           V. Roth, Jr., Conrad R. Burns, Richard G. Lugar, Phil 
           Gramm, Bob Smith.


                            Call of the Roll

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the quorum call has been 
waived.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the modified committee amendment to S. 4, the Family 
Friendly Workplace Act, 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. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Vermont [Mr. Jeffords] 
is necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Vermont [Mr. Jeffords] would vote ``yea.''

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  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. Reed] is 
necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Rhode Island [Mr. Reed] would vote ``no.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 93 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Burns
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell
     Craig
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kempthorne
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner

                                NAYS--47

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cleland
     Conrad
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Specter
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Jeffords
     Reed
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Stevens). On this vote, the yeas are 51, 
the nays are 47. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The majority leader.

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