[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 129 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S10866]
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[[Page S10866]]
        FEDERAL VACANCIES REFORM ACT OF 1988--MOTION TO PROCEED


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under rule XXII, the clerk will now report the 
motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 2176.
  The 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 S. 2176, the Vacancies Act:
         Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, Charles Grassley, Thad 
           Cochran, Wayne Allard, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Don 
           Nickles, Orrin G. Hatch, Pat Roberts, Tim Hutchinson, 
           Richard Shelby, Conrad Burns, Jim Inhofe, Connie Mack, 
           Fred Thompson, Spencer Abraham, and Robert C. Byrd.


                            Call of the Roll

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
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. 2176, the vacancy bill, 
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. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Glenn) and the 
Senator from Illinois (Ms. Moseley-Braun), are absent on official 
business.
  I also announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Wellstone) is 
attending a funeral.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Wellstone) would vote ``aye.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 96, nays 1, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 285 Leg.]

                                YEAS--96

     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
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     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--1

       
     Durbin
       

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Glenn
     Moseley-Braun
     Wellstone
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Santorum). On this vote, the yeas are 96, 
the nays are 1. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Mr. LOTT addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.


                      UNANIMOUS-CONSENT AGREEMENT

  Mr. LOTT. I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule XXII, the 
Senate immediately proceed to the order with respect to the Inhofe 
amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. LOTT. For the information, then, of all Senators, another vote 
will occur in approximately 10 minutes relative to the Inhofe amendment 
which is pending to the FAA reauthorization bill, and after that vote 
we will announce what the process will be thereafter.

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