[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 98 (Tuesday, July 21, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8600-S8601]
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              LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1999

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will now resume consideration of 
the Legislative Branch Appropriations bill, which the clerk will 
report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

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

  The Senate resumed consideration of the bill.
  Pending:

       McCain amendment No. 3225, to make available on the 
     Internet, for purposes of access and retrieval by the public, 
     certain information available through the Congressional 
     Research Service web site.


                             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 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.


                            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 H.R. 4112, the legislative branch appropriations bill, 
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 Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) 
is necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 83, nays 16, as follows: 

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 213 Leg.]

                                YEAS--83

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Burns
     Byrd
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Shelby
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--16

     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Brownback
     Campbell
     Coats
     DeWine
     Faircloth
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Kempthorne
     Kyl
     McCain
     Sessions
     Smith (NH)
     Thompson
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Inhofe
        
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 83, the nays are 16.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.


                           Amendment No. 3225

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The pending business is amendment No. 3225 by 
the Senator from Arizona, Senator McCain.
  Mr. BENNETT addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.


                             Point of Order

  Mr. BENNETT. Mr. President, I raise a point of order that the pending 
McCain amendment is not germane post-cloture.

[[Page S8601]]

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment proposes new subject matter not 
dealt with in the underlying bill and therefore is not germane and 
falls for that reason.
  Mr. BENNETT. Mr. President, I know of no further amendments or debate 
at this time. I ask the Chair to put the question before the Senate, 
and I 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.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the engrossment of the 
amendments and third reading of the bill.
  The amendments were ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill was read a third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the 
question is, Shall the bill pass? The yeas and nays have been ordered. 
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.
  The result was announced--yeas 90, nays 9, as follows:

                     [Rollcall Vote No. 214 Leg.] 

                               YEAS--90 

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden 

                                NAYS--9 

     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Brownback
     Faircloth
     Feingold
     Gramm
     Kyl
     Smith (NH) 

                             NOT VOTING--1 

       
     Inhofe
       
  The bill (H.R. 4112), as amended, was passed.
  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the 
bill was passed, and I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. HELMS addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hutchinson). The Senator from North 
Carolina.
  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, are we now in morning business?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. No. The Senator needs to make that request, if 
he wishes.

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