[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 96 (Friday, July 17, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S8471]
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              LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1999

  The Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask the Senate now turn to H.R. 4112.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The bill (H.R. 4112) making appropriations for the 
     Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     1999, and for other purposes.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  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 legislative 
     appropriations bill:
         Trent Lott, Robert F. Bennett, Ted Stevens, Don Nickles, 
           Bill Frist, Jesse Helms, Pete Domenici, Richard Shelby, 
           Rod Grams, Kit Bond, Thomas A. Daschle, Orrin G. Hatch, 
           Larry Craig, Strom Thurmond, Paul Coverdell, and Chuck 
           Hagel.

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, for the information of all Senators, 
unfortunately in this case Members on our side of the aisle have 
insisted on an amendment that made it impossible for us to get a 
unanimous consent agreement as to how to bring up a complete 
legislative appropriations bill. In order to expedite that legislative 
appropriations bill, I did, then, file a cloture motion. That vote will 
occur on Tuesday, July 21, at approximately 9:30 a.m.
  I now ask that the mandatory quorum under rule XXII be waived.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. LOTT. I want to confirm that I have discussed this, of course, 
with Members on our side of the aisle and with Senator Daschle. He is 
aware of this. Any first-degree amendments, then, that are to be 
offered to the legislative appropriations bill, must be filed by 2 p.m. 
on Monday, July 20.

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