[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 16, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9375-S9376]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION MODERNIZATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 
                                  1997

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 substitute 
     amendment to Calendar No. 105, S. 830, the FDA reform bill:
         Trent Lott, James M. Jeffords, Pat Roberts, Kay Bailey 
           Hutchison, Tim Hutchinson, Conrad Burns, Chuck Hagel, 
           Jon Kyl, Rod Grams, Pete Domenici, Ted Stevens, 
           Christopher S. Bond, Strom Thurmond, Judd Gregg, Don 
           Nickles, and Paul Coverdell.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the modified committee amendment to S. 830, the FDA 
Administration Modernization and Accountability Act, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule, and the clerk will 
call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from New York [Mr. D'Amato] 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia [Mr. Byrd] 
is necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?

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  The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 4, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 239 Leg.]

                                YEAS--94

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

                                NAYS--4

     Akaka
     Kennedy
     Reed
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Byrd
     D'Amato
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 94, the nays are 4. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Mr. WYDEN addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.


                           Order of Procedure

  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to proceed as if in 
morning business for 10 minutes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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