[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 76 (Thursday, June 5, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5338-S5339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998--CONFERENCE 
                                 REPORT

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the concurrent 
resolution.
  Mr. DOMENICI addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, we are going to vote on the budget 
resolution in just a moment.
  I want to announce that the House passed the Senate budget resolution 
333 to 99. We passed it 78 to 22.
  I believe the reason we have not gotten a balanced budget in the past 
is we have not had a President and a Congress in accord. And I think we 
are going to get a balanced budget.
  In recent years, however, the obstacles to the Federal budget have 
been primarily a question of finding a working consensus between the 
Executive and the Congress. Today we have a consensus on this issue. Of 
course, each of us along might have designed the plan differently, but 
then we might have had a consensus. Yes I personally think we should 
have done more in entitlement spending programs that still threaten the 
foundation of this house we build today, but for today we must do what 
we can to. And I ask you to vote as you did on May 23 and adopt this 
conference agreement.
  Mr. LAUTENBERG. We yield all the time we had.
  Mr. DOMENICI. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Stevens). Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the conference 
report. On this question, the yeas and nays have been ordered, and 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.''
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. 
Lieberman] is necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 22, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 96 Leg.]

                                YEAS--76

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kerrey
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Stevens
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--22

     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bumpers
     Coats
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Gramm
     Grams
     Helms
     Hollings
     Inhofe
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kyl
     Moynihan
     Reed
     Sarbanes
     Smith (NH)
     Specter
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Jeffords
     Lieberman
       
  The conference report was agreed to.
  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. BENNETT. I move to lay that motion on the table.

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  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, for the information of all Senators, the 
Senate will shortly adjourn over until Monday at noon, 12 o'clock. I 
announce to all Senators that no votes will occur on Monday prior to 
the hour of 5 p.m. I expect a lengthy period of morning business on 
Monday to accommodate a number of requests, and I will update the 
Democratic leader at a later time with respect to potential legislation 
the Senate may consider on Monday. We have already had one conversation 
about that, and we will have some more here in a few minutes.
  Before I consider two housekeeping items, I would like to thank all 
Senators for their cooperation this week. The Senate has now passed a 
budget resolution outlining a long overdue balanced budget for our 
Nation, and I congratulate all those Senators who have participated in 
the negotiations. Again, I thank Senator Domenici, the chairman of 
Budget Committee, and Senator Lautenberg, who also has worked with us 
getting through some problems we ran into. They both did an excellent 
job. The Senate also adopted the supplemental appropriations conference 
report. Consequently, I think this has been a good week, and I hope we 
can continue that next week.

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