[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 152 (Tuesday, November 4, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S11632]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair directs the clerk to report the 
motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the fast track 
legislation.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provision of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to 
     proceed to calendar No. 198, S. 1269, the so-called fast-
     track legislation.
         Trent Lott, Bill Roth, Jon Kyl, Pete Domenici, Thad 
           Cochran, Rod Grams, Sam Brownback, Richard Shelby, John 
           Warner, Slade Gorton, Craig Thomas, Larry E. Craig, 
           Mitch McConnell, Wayne Allard, Paul Coverdell, and 
           Robert F. Bennett.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate shall be brought to a close on the motion to proceed to S. 
1269, the so-called fast track legislation?
  The rules require a yea or nay vote. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 69, nays 31, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 292 Leg.]

                                YEAS--69

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sessions
     Smith (OR)
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--31

     Boxer
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Conrad
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inhofe
     Kennedy
     Levin
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Reed
     Reid
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 69, the nays are 31. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. GRAMM. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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