[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 29, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11084-S11085]
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      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT--CONFERENCE REPORT

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now 
vote on adoption of the conference report accompanying H.R. 4103.
  Mr. STEVENS. I ask for the yeas and nays.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays have been requested.
  Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, is this a 10 minute vote?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. That is correct.
  The question is on agreeing to the conference report. The yeas and 
nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) 
and the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Sessions) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
Hollings) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Moseley-Braun) are 
necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Illinois (Ms. Moseley-Braun) would vote ``aye.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
who desire to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 2, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 291 Leg.]

                                YEAS--94

     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
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     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
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--2

     Feingold
     Wellstone
       

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Hagel
     Hollings
     Moseley-Braun
     Sessions
  The conference report was agreed to.

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