[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 152 (Tuesday, November 4, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11626-S11627]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Allard). Pursuant to rule XXII, the clerk 
will report the motion to invoke cloture on H.R. 2646.
  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 H.R. 2646, the 
     Education Savings Act for Public and Private Schools.
       Trent Lott, Paul Coverdell, Robert F. Bennett, Pat Roberts, 
     Strom Thurmond, Gordon H. Smith, Bill Frist, Mike DeWine, 
     Larry E. Craig, Don Nickles, Connie Mack, Jeff Sessions, 
     Conrad Burns, Lauch Faircloth, Thad Cochran, and Wayne 
     Allard.


                            Call of the Roll

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under a previous order, the live quorum 
required under the rule has been waived.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on H.R. 2646, the Education Savings Act for public and 
private schools, shall be brought to a close?

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  The yeas and nays are mandatory. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 44, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 291 Leg.]

                                YEAS--56

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

                                NAYS--44

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Wellstone
     Wyden
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 56, the nays are 44. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote and I move to 
table the motion.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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