[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 15 (Wednesday, February 25, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1000-S1001]
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                        PAYCHECK PROTECTION ACT

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.


                       Vote on Amendment No. 1647

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
lay on the table the amendment offered by the Senator from Maine. The 
yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) and the Senator from 
California (Mrs. Feinstein) are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) would vote ``no.''
  The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 14 Leg.]

                                YEAS--47

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

                                NAYS--50

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Collins
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Ford
     Glenn
     Graham
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     McCain
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Snowe
     Specter
     Thompson
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Feinstein
     Harkin
     Kennedy
  The motion to lay on the table the amendment (No. 1647) was rejected.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. FORD. I move to lay it on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.


                      Amendment No. 1648 Withdrawn

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I now withdraw amendment No. 1648.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Stevens). The Senator has that right. The 
amendment is withdrawn.
  Amendment No. 1648 was withdrawn.


                           Amendment No. 1647

  Mr. LOTT. I ask unanimous consent the Senate now proceed to the 
question with respect to the Snowe amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the Snowe 
amendment.
  The amendment (No. 1647) was agreed to.


          Amendment No. 1674 to Amendment No. 1646, as Amended

           (Purpose: To prohibit new welfare for politicians)

  Mr. LOTT. I now ask unanimous consent it be in order for me to send 
an amendment to the desk to the pending McCain amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Lott] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 1674 to amendment No. 1646, as amended.

  Mr. LOTT. I ask that reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

     SECTION 600. ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS.

       (a) Prohibition.--None of the funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available to the Federal Communications 
     Commission may be expended to impose or enforce any 
     requirement or obligation with respect to the provision of 
     free or discounted television broadcast time for campaign 
     advertising unless such requirement or obligation is 
     specifically and expressly authorized by title III of the 
     Communication Act of 1934.

     SECTION 601. SEVERABILITY.

       If any provision of this Act or amendment made by this Act, 
     or the application of a provision or amendment to any person 
     or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the 
     remainder of this Act, and the application of the provisions 
     and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be 
     affected by the holding.

  Mr. LOTT. I now 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.


                Amendment No. 1675 to Amendment No. 1674

           (Purpose: To prohibit new welfare for politicians)

  Mr. LOTT. I ask unanimous consent it be in order now for me to send 
an amendment to the desk.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Reserving the right to object, would the majority leader 
be able to describe the first amendment and the second amendment?
  Mr. LOTT. Thank you for making that inquiry. Let me explain it to the 
Members.
  What we have done here is to accept the Snowe amendment as was 
offered and debated this afternoon to the McCain amendment. Her 
amendment was a second-degree amendment to the McCain-Feingold 
amendment. That was accepted.
  We now propose to go to a vote on the McCain-Feingold amendment, as 
amended. It would be a motion to table.
  Mr. DASCHLE. So the majority leader has offered two amendments to the 
pending amendment?
  Mr. LOTT. Both FEC language amendments.
  What is pending is McCain-Feingold, as amended by Snowe. We would 
have a vote on that, as amended.
  Mr. DASCHLE. I thank you for the explanation.
  Mr. McCAIN. Reserving the right to object, I will not object. I 
believe this is a good thing to have the Snowe-Jeffords amendment 
incorporated in McCain-Feingold. I appreciate the majority leader doing 
that.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I send the second amendment to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Lott] proposes an 
     amendment numbered 1675 to amendment No. 1674.

  The text of the amendment is as follows:

     600. ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS.

       (a) Prohibition.--None of the funds appropriated or 
     otherwise made available to the Federal Communications 
     Commission may be expended to impose or enforce any 
     requirement or obligation with respect to the provision of 
     free or discounted television broadcast time for campaign 
     advertising unless such requirement or obligation is 
     specifically and expressly authorized by title III of the 
     Communication Act of 1934.
       (b) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect ten 
     days after enactment of this Act.

     SECTION 601. SEVERABILITY.

       If any provision of this Act or amendment made by this Act, 
     or the application of a provision or amendment to any person 
     or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the 
     remainder of this Act, and the application of the provisions 
     and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be 
     affected by the holding.

  Mr. DASCHLE. Parliamentary inquiry. There are still some questions as 
to what we are about to vote on. Let me state it, and I would 
appreciate it if the Presiding Officer could clarify whether or not my 
understanding is correct.
  We are about to vote on tabling the McCain-Feingold amendment as 
modified by the Snowe amendment; is that correct?
  Mr. LOTT. That is correct. That is amendment No. 1646.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is the Chair's understanding.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I move to table the amendment number 
1646, and I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.

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  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
table the amendment. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin) and the 
Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye) are necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 15 Leg.]

                                YEAS--48

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

                                NAYS--50

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Collins
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Graham
     Hollings
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     McCain
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Snowe
     Specter
     Thompson
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Harkin
     Inouye
       
  The motion to lay on the table the amendment (No. 1646), as amended, 
was rejected.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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