[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 125 (Thursday, September 18, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S9632]
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 FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION MODERNIZATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 
                                  1977

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report S. 830.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 830) to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
     Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to improve the 
     regulation of food, drugs, devices, and biological products, 
     and for other purposes.

  The Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Pending:

       Modified committee amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
     (The modification incorporated the language of Jeffords 
     Amendment No. 1130, in the nature of a substitute.)
       Harkin Amendment No. 1137 (to Amendment No. 1130), 
     authorizing funds for each of fiscal years 1998 through 2002 
     to establish within the National Institutes of Health an 
     agency to be known as the National Center for Complementary 
     and Alternative Medicine.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk on 
the FDA bill.
  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 on Calendar No. 
     105, S. 830, the FDA reform bill:

         Trent Lott, Jim Jeffords, Pat Roberts, Kay Bailey 
           Hutchison, Tim Hutchinson, Conrad Burns, Chuck Hagel, 
           Jon Kyl, Rod Grams, Pete Domenici, Ted Stevens, 
           Christopher Bond, Strom Thurmond, Judd Gregg, Don 
           Nickles, Paul Coverdell.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. I ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum under rule 
XXII be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. JEFFORDS. For the information of all Senators, this cloture vote 
will occur immediately following the adoption of the committee 
substitute, which I hope will be by early afternoon on Tuesday, 
September 23.

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