[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 99 (Monday, July 14, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7414-S7415]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, pursuant to rule XXII, 
the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the 
clerk will state.
  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 Executive 
     Calendar No. 104, the nomination of Joel I. Klein, to be 
     Assistant Attorney General:
         Trent Lott, Orrin Hatch, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John 
           McCain, Olympia Snowe, Dan Coats, Pat Roberts, Rod 
           Grams, R.F. Bennett, Thad Cochran, Jim Inhofe, Sam 
           Brownback, W.V. Roth, Chuck Hagel, J. Warner, Larry E. 
           Craig.


                            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 nomination of Joel I. Klein of the District of 
Columbia, to be Assistant Attorney General, 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 Utah [Mr. Bennett], the 
Senator from Montana [Mr. Burns], the Senator from New York [Mr. 
D'Amato], the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Grams], the Senator from 
Pennsylvania [Mr. Santorum], and the Senator from Alabama [Mr. 
Sessions] are necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Delaware [Mr. Biden], the 
Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Dodd], the Senator from Massachusetts 
[Mr. Kennedy], the Senator from Maryland [Ms. Mikulski], and the 
Senator from Oregon [Mr. Wyden] are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy] would vote ``aye.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 78, nays 11, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 174 Ex.]

                                YEAS--78

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Warner

                                NAYS--11

     Akaka
     Byrd
     Cleland
     Conrad
     Dorgan
     Feingold
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Kerrey
     Lautenberg
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bennett
     Biden
     Burns
     D'Amato
     Dodd
     Grams
     Kennedy
     Mikulski
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 78, the nays are 
11. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. INOUYE. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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