[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 7, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11648-S11649]
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                        INTERNET TAX FREEDOM ACT


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under a previous order, the cloture motion 
having been presented under rule XXII, the

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Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on Calendar No. 
     509, S. 442, the Internet tax bill:
         Trent Lott, John McCain, Wayne Allard, Connie Mack, 
           Gordon Smith, Paul Coverdell, Spencer Abraham, Mike 
           DeWine, Conrad Burns, James Inhofe, Judd Gregg, Rod 
           Grams, Craig Thomas, Olympia Snowe, Rick Santorum, and 
           Larry E. Craig.


                            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 S. 442, the Internet Tax Freedom Act, shall be brought 
to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, the Senate is not in order. Will the Chair 
repeat what the question is upon which the Senators will be voting?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct. The Senate is not in 
order.
  By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call under the rule is 
waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on S. 442, 
the Internet Tax Freedom Act, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. BYRD. Thank you.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Jeffords) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Glenn) is 
necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 4, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 302 Leg.]

                                YEAS--94

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     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
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                                NAYS--4

     Bumpers
     Dorgan
     Gorton
     Hollings

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Glenn
     Jeffords
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hutchinson). On this vote, the yeas are 
94, the nays are 4. Three-fifths of the Senators having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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