[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 144 (Thursday, October 23, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11014-S11015]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the clerk will 
report the motion to invoke cloture.
  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 modified 
     committee amendment to S. 1173, the Intermodal Surface 
     Transportation Efficiency Act:
         Senators Trent Lott, John H. Chafee, Paul Coverdell, 
           Christopher Bond, Jesse Helms, Michael B. Enzi, John 
           Ashcroft, Don Nickles, Craig Thomas, Mike DeWine, 
           Richard Lugar, Pat Roberts, Ted Stevens, Wayne Allard, 
           Dirk Kempthorne, and Larry 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 modified committee amendment to S. 1173, a bill to 
authorize funds for the construction of highways, for highway safety 
programs, and for mass transit programs, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 48, nays 52, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 275 Leg.]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--52

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Cleland
     Collins
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Mack
     McCain

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     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Snowe
     Specter
     Thompson
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Burns). On this vote, the yeas are 48, the 
nays are 52. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.

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