[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 88 (Tuesday, July 7, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7525-S7526]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, pursuant to rule 
XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, 
which the clerk will report.
  The assistant 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. 90, S. 648, the products liability 
     bill:
         Trent Lott, Don Nickles, Slade Gorton, Phil Gramm, John 
           McCain, Spencer Abraham, Daniel Coats, Richard G. 
           Lugar, Lauch Faircloth, John H. Chafee, Sam Brownback, 
           Ted Stevens, Jon Kyl, Jeff Sessions, Michael B. Enzi, 
           and Judd Gregg.

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                            Call of the Roll

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the motion to proceed to S. 648, the product liability 
bill, shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are required under 
the rule. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) 
is necessary absent.
  I also announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) is 
absent because of illness.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the 
Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), and the Senator from Maryland 
(Mr. Sarbanes) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 71, nays 24, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 184 Leg.]

                                YEAS--71

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kerrey
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--24

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Cleland
     Conrad
     D'Amato
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Levin
     Moseley-Braun
     Murray
     Roth
     Shelby
     Torricelli
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Mikulski
     Sarbanes
     Specter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Roberts). On this vote, the yeas are 71, 
the nays are 24. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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