[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 90 (Thursday, July 9, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S7717]
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                             Cloture Motion

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the pending 
     amendment to Calendar No. 90, S. 648, the Product Liability 
     Reform Act of 1997:
         Trent Lott, Don Nickles, Slade Gorton, Phil Gramm, John 
           McCain, Spencer Abraham, Dan Coats, Dick Lugar, Lauch 
           Faircloth, John Chafee, Sam Brownback, Ted Stevens, Jon 
           Kyl, Jeff Sessions, Mike Enzi, and Judd Gregg.


                            Call of the Roll

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


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the amendment No. 3064 to S. 648, the Product Liability 
Reform Act, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) 
and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Kyl) are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that if present and voting, the Senator from 
Arizona (Mr. Kyl) would vote ``yes.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
who desire to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 188 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

     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
     Hutchinson
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Kempthorne
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner

                                NAYS--47

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

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Hutchison
     Kyl
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 51, the nays are 47. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is rejected.

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