[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 150 (Friday, October 31, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S11512]
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                                  VOTE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the motion to proceed to the conference report to 
accompany H.R. 1119, the National Defense Authorization Act, shall be 
brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Florida [Mr. Mack] and 
the Senator from Arizona [Mr. McCain] are necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Montana [Mr. Baucus], the 
Senator from West Virginia [Mr. Rockefeller], and the Senator from 
Minnesota [Mr. Wellstone] are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Minnesota [Mr. Wellstone] would vote ``aye.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bond). Are there any other Senators in the 
Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 93, nays 2, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 289 Leg.]

                                YEAS--93

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

                                NAYS--2

     Hollings
     Kohl
       

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Baucus
     Mack
     McCain
     Rockefeller
     Wellstone
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 93, the nays are 2. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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