[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 140 (Thursday, October 9, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10731-S10732]
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                             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 pending 
     amendment No. 1258 to Calendar No. 183, S. 25, the campaign 
     finance reform bill:
         Trent Lott, D. Nickles, Jon Kyl, Slade Gorton, Mitch 
           McConnell, Connie Mack, Larry Craig, Strom Thurmond, 
           Gordon Smith, Jesse Helms, Kay Bailey Hutchison, 
           Christopher S. Bond, Bill Frist, Charles Grassley, Thad 
           Cochran, Rick Santorum.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that the debate on amendment No. 1258 to S. 25, a bill to reform the 
financing of Federal elections, shall be brought to a close? The yeas 
and nays are required under the rule. The clerk will call the roll.

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  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Florida [Mr. Mack] is 
necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 48, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 274 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kempthorne
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner

                                NAYS--48

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Cleland
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Snowe
     Specter
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Mack
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 
48. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. LOTT addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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