[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 69 (Tuesday, June 2, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S5564]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the hour of 6 p.m. 
having arrived, the clerk will report the cloture motion.
  The legislative 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 the motion to 
     proceed to calendar No. 312, H.R. 1270, the Nuclear Waste 
     Policy Act:
         Trent Lott, Frank H. Murkowski, Chuck Hagel, Slade 
           Gorton, Pat Roberts, Olympia J. Snowe, Jon Kyl, Tim 
           Hutchinson, Rod Grams, Spencer Abraham, Pete Domenici, 
           Bill Roth, Don Nickles, Thad Cochran, Michael B. Enzi, 
           Charles Grassley.


                            Call of the Roll

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the quorum call under 
the rule is waived.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the motion to proceed to the consideration of H.R. 1270, 
an act to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rules.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) 
is necessarily absent.
  I also announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) is 
absent because of illness.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden), the 
Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), and the Senator from Illinois 
(Ms. Moseley-Braun), are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 56, nays 39, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 148 Leg.]

                                YEAS--56

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

                                NAYS--39

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bingaman
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Cleland
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Graham
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Lieberman
     Mikulski
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Biden
     Boxer
     Inhofe
     Moseley-Braun
     Specter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 56, the nays are 
39. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. FORD. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I just received a statement from the 
Speaker of the House concerning the last vote we had on the high-level 
nuclear waste bill. I would like to enter the Speaker's statement on 
the nuclear waste bill in the Record so that there will not be any 
confusion as to the position of the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives. I ask unanimous consent that this statement be printed 
in the Record.
  There being no objection, the statement was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

               Speaker's Statement on Nuclear Waste Bill

       Washington, DC.--House Speaker Newt Gingrich released the 
     following statement on the status of the nuclear waste bill.
       ``Although I strongly support a legislative resolution to 
     the nuclear waste issue, it is unlikely that such a bill will 
     make it past the President's veto to become law this year. 
     Because of the crowded calendar and the strong opposition of 
     some members, I do not expect to schedule floor action this 
     year.
       ``Along with his colleague Jim Gibbons, John Ensign has 
     been a forceful and effective voice for the citizens of 
     Nevada in opposing the nuclear waste bill.''--House Speaker 
     Newt Gingrich.

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