[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 136 (Friday, October 3, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10317-S10318]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998

  Mr. COVERDELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
now resume the D.C. appropriations bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1156) making appropriations for the government 
     of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable 
     in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for 
     the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other 
     purposes.

  The Senate resumed consideration of the bill.
  Pending:

       Coats modified amendment No. 1249, to provide scholarship 
     assistance for District of Columbia elementary and secondary 
     school students.
       Graham-Mack-Kennedy amendment No. 1252, to provide relief 
     to certain aliens who

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     would otherwise be subject to removal from the United States.
       Mack-Graham-Kennedy modified amendment No. 1253 (to 
     amendment No. 1252), in the nature of a substitute.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. COVERDELL. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk and 
ask for its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The bill 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 Mack second-
     degree amendment No. 1253 to Calendar No. 155, S. 1156, the 
     District of Columbia appropriations bill:
         Connie Mack, Mike DeWine, Barbara Boxer, Bob Graham, 
           Conrad Burns, Wayne Allard, Paul Coverdell, James M. 
           Inhofe, John H. Chafee, Richard G. Lugar, Ted Stevens, 
           Larry E. Craig, James M. Jeffords, Gordon Smith, R.F. 
           Bennett, D. Nickles.
  Mr. COVERDELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
mandatory quorum under rule XXII be waived and the cloture vote occur 
at a time to be determined by the majority leader after notification of 
the Democratic leader but not before 4 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday October 
7.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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