[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 105 (Thursday, July 30, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9416-S9417]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1999

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I believe we are ready to go to final 
passage of the defense bill.
  Mr. STEVENS. I ask we proceed with the unanimous consent agreement.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Shall the bill, H.R. 4103, as 
amended, pass? On this question, the yeas and nays have been ordered. 
The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Helms) is absent because of illness.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
North Carolina (Mr. Helms) would vote ``aye.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 2, as follows:

                     [Rollcall Vote No. 252 Leg.] 

                               YEAS--97 

     Abraham 
     Akaka 
     Allard 
     Ashcroft 
     Baucus 
     Bennett 
     Biden 
     Bingaman 
     Bond 
     Boxer 
     Breaux 
     Brownback 
     Bryan 
     Bumpers 
     Burns 
     Byrd 
     Campbell 
     Chafee 
     Cleland 
     Coats 
     Cochran 
     Collins 
     Conrad 
     Coverdell 
     Craig 
     D'Amato 
     Daschle 
     DeWine 
     Dodd 
     Domenici 
     Dorgan 
     Durbin 
     Enzi 
     Faircloth 
     Feinstein 
     Ford 
     Frist 
     Glenn 
     Gorton 
     Graham 
     Gramm 
     Grams 
     Grassley 
     Gregg 
     Hagel 
     Harkin 
     Hatch 
     Hollings 
     Hutchinson 
     Hutchison 
     Inhofe 
     Inouye 
     Jeffords 
     Johnson 
     Kempthorne 
     Kennedy 
     Kerrey 
     Kerry 
     Kohl 
     Kyl 
     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 (NH) 
     Smith (OR) 
     Snowe 
     Specter 
     Stevens 
     Thomas 
     Thompson 
     Thurmond 
     Torricelli 
     Warner 
     Wyden 

                                NAYS--2 

     Feingold 
     Wellstone 
        

                             NOT VOTING--1 

       
     Helms
       
  The bill (H.R. 4103), as amended, was passed.

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  (The text of the bill will be printed in a future edition of the 
Record.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate insists 
on its amendment, requests a conference with the House, and the Chair 
appoints the following conferees.
  The Presiding Officer appointed Mr. Stevens, Mr. Cochran, Mr. 
Specter, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Bond, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Gregg, 
Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Hollings, Mr. Byrd, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
Bumpers, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Harkin, and Mr. Dorgan, conferees on the 
part of the Senate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the order, S. 2132 is indefinitely 
postponed.

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