[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 121 (Monday, September 14, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S10309]
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                             CLOTURE MOTION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the clerk will 
report the motion to invoke cloture.
  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. 344, S. 1981, the 
salting legislation:
         Trent Lott, Tim Hutchinson, Don Nickles, Lauch Faircloth, 
           Paul Coverdell, John Ashcroft, Jim Inhofe, Susan 
           Collins, Chuck Hagel, John Warner, Jeff Sessions, 
           Connie Mack, Sam Brownback, Jesse Helms, Wayne Allard, 
           Kit Bond.


                            Call of the Roll

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call under the rule is waived.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the motion to proceed to S. 1981, the Truth in 
Employment Act, 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 New York (Mr. D'Amato) 
and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Hollings), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from 
Illinois (Ms. Mosely-Braun), and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Torricelli) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 266 Leg.]

                                YEAS--52

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Burns
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell
     Craig
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Kempthorne
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner

                                NAYS--42

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

                             NOT VOTING--6

     D'Amato
     Hollings
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Specter
     Torricelli
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Allard). On this vote the yeas are 52, the 
nays are 42. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Several Senators addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. LOTT. Just to inform Members, we will have a second vote 
momentarily, but it will not be very long, I don't think. I believe the 
Democratic leader is going to have some brief remarks and then I have 
one Member who wants to have remarks printed in the Record, and Senator 
Craig wishes to make closing remarks on our side. So after a relatively 
brief period of time we will have another vote, and then that will be 
the last vote for tonight.
  Again, I am going to talk to Senator Daschle, but I believe the next 
vote will be at 2:15 tomorrow afternoon, after the luncheon.
  I yield the floor.

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