[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 156 (Saturday, November 8, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12094-S12095]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      SUBMITTING CHANGES TO THE BUDGET RESOLUTION AGGREGATES AND 
                  APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE ALLOCATION

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, section 314(b)(2) of the Congressional 
Budget Act, as amended, requires the chairman of the Senate Budget 
Committee to adjust the appropriate budgetary aggregates and the 
allocation for the Appropriations Committee to reflect additional new 
budget authority and outlays for continuing disability reviews subject 
to the limitations in section 251(b)(2)(C) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act.
  I hereby submit revisions to the budget authority, outlays, and 
deficit aggregates for fiscal year 1998 contained in sec. 101 of House 
Concurrent Resolution 84 in the following amounts:

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                                                         Deficit          Budget Authority         Outlays
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Current aggregates...............................      173,462,000,000    1,390,913,000,000    1,372,462,000,000
Adjustments......................................           43,000,000           45,000,000           43,000,000
Revised aggregates...............................      173,505,000,000    1,390,958,000,000    1,372,505,000,000
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  I hereby submit revisions to the 1998 Senate Appropriations Committee 
budget authority and outlay allocations, pursuant to sec. 302 of the 
Congressional Budget Act, in the following amounts:

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                                      Budget Authority       Outlays
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Current allocation:
  Defense discretionary.............   269,000,000,000   266,823,000,000
  Nondefense discretionary..........   256,036,000,000   283,243,000,000
  Violent crime reduction fund......     5,500,000,000     3,592,000,000
  Mandatory.........................   277,312,000,000   278,725,000,000
  Total allocation..................   807,848,000,000   832,383,000,000
Adjustments:
  Defense discretionary.............  ................  ................
  Nondefense discretionary..........        45,000,000        43,000,000
  Violent crime reduction fund......  ................  ................
  Mandatory.........................  ................  ................
  Total allocation..................        45,000,000        43,000,000
Revised allocation:
  Defense discretionary.............   269,000,000,000   266,823,000,000
  Nondefense discretionary..........   256,081,000,000   283,286,000,000
  Violent crime reduction fund......     5,500,000,000     3,592,000,000
  Mandatory.........................   277,312,000,000   278,725,000,000
  Total allocation..................   807,893,000,000   832,426,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Mr. DOMENICI. I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a 
quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. BOND. Mr. President, have the yeas and nays been requested?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. They have not.
  Mr. BOND. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the conference 
report.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Missouri [Mr. 
Ashcroft], the Senator from Colorado [Mr. Campbell], the Senator from 
Arizona [Mr. McCain], and the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. McConnell] are 
necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Missouri [Mr. Ashcroft] would vote ``nay.''
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Wellstone], 
is necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Minnesota [Mr. Wellstone], would vote ``aye.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 91, Nays 4, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 298 Leg.]

                                YEAS--91

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Burns
     Byrd
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist

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     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Shelby
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--4

     Helms
     Inhofe
     Sessions
     Smith (NH)

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Ashcroft
     Campbell
     McCain
     McConnell
     Wellstone
  The conference report was agreed to.
  Mr. KERREY. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the 
conference report was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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