[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 26 (Friday, February 12, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S1462]
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                         RESOLUTION OF CENSURE

  Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I move to proceed to my censure 
resolution which is at the desk.
  The text of the motion reads as follows:

       I move to suspend the following:
       Rule VII, paragraph 2 the phrase ``upon the calendar'', 
     and;
       Rule VIII, paragraph 2 the phrase ``during the first two 
     hours of a new legislative day''.
       In order to permit a motion to proceed to a censure 
     resolution, to be introduced on the day of the motion to 
     proceed, notwithstanding the fact that it is not on the 
     calendar of business.

  Mr. GRAMM addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.
  Mr. GRAMM. Mr. President, I have to object. This resolution is not on 
the Calendar. Therefore, it is not in order to present it to the 
Senate.
  Mrs. FEINSTEIN addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California.
  Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, in light of that objection, I move to 
suspend the rules, the notice of which I printed in the Record on 
Monday, February 8, in order to permit my motion to proceed.
  Mr. GRAMM addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.
  Mr. GRAMM. Mr. President, I send a motion to the desk, a motion to 
indefinitely postpone the consideration of the Feinstein motion.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion.
  Mr. GRAMM. Mr. President, I ask that reading of the motion be 
dispensed with, and I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  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 Texas, Mr. Gramm. The yeas and nays have been ordered. 
The clerk will call the roll.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 43, nays 56, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 19 Leg.]

                                YEAS--43

     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cochran
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Mack
     McCain
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith Bob
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--56

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Collins
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Gorton
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lugar
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Smith Gordon H
     Snowe
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Domenici
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Inhofe). On this vote, the yeas are 43, 
the nays are 56. Two-thirds of the Senators not having voted in the 
negative, the motion to suspend is withdrawn and the Gramm point of 
order is sustained. The Feinstein motion to proceed falls.
  (Under a previous unanimous consent agreement, the following 
statements pertaining to the impeachment proceedings were ordered 
printed in the Record:)

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