[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 16, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S10415]
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                              QUORUM CALL

  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  Mr. GORTON. Objection.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Thomas). Objection is heard.
  The assistant legislative clerk continued to call the roll.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Santorum). Objection is heard.
  The legislative clerk resumed the call of the roll and the following 
Senators entered the Chamber and answered to their names:

                             [Quorum No. 3]

     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bond
     Boxer
     Burns
     Conrad
     Craig
     Daschle
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Faircloth
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hutchinson
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kyl
     Leahy
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Reed
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Smith (OR)
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. A quorum is not present. The clerk will call 
the names of absent Senators.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I move to instruct the Sergeant at Arms to 
request the attendance of absent Senators.
  Mr. President, 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 agreeing to the motion of 
the Senator from Mississippi.
  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 North Carolina (Mr. 
Helms), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions), and the Senator from 
Alabama (Mr. Shelby) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Bumpers) and 
the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Hollings) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Inhofe). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber who desire to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 1, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 270 Leg.]

                                YEAS--94

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     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
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                                NAYS--1

       
     Breaux
       

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Bumpers
     Helms
     Hollings
     Sessions
     Shelby
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. With the addition of Senators voting who did 
not answer the quorum call, a quorum is now present.
  The majority leader.

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