[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 93 (Monday, June 28, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7706-S7707]
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      FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS 
              APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2000--MOTION TO PROCEED


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, pursuant to Rule 
XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, 
which the clerk will report.
  The assistant 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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 159, S. 1234, the Foreign Operations 
     appropriations bill.
         Senators Trent Lott, Ted Stevens, Fred Thompson, Richard 
           G. Lugar, Judd Gregg, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Thad 
           Cochran, Mike DeWine, Conrad Burns, Pete Domenici, 
           Christopher Bond, Slade Gorton, John Ashcroft, George 
           V. Voinovich, Frank H. Murkowski, and Paul Coverdell.


                            Call of the Roll

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the quorum call has been 
waived.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the motion to proceed to S. 1234, the Foreign Operations 
appropriations bill, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mr. 
Gorton), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Jeffords), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Mack), and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. 
Murkowski) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Torricelli) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 41, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 187 Leg.]

                                YEAS--49

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchison
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--41

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Cleland
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Smith (NH)
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Boxer
     Gorton
     Hutchinson
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Lautenberg
     Lieberman
     Mack
     Murkowski
     Torricelli
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 49, the nays are 41. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in 
the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, our effort with these cloture votes was to 
find a way to move the people's business forward. We had four cloture 
votes on four appropriations bills: one on the agriculture 
appropriations bill and three on motions to proceed to other bills--
Commerce-Justice-State transportation, and foreign operations 
appropriations.

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  Obviously, these bills are ready to go. We should make every effort 
to consider those and/or other bills. I understand the District of 
Columbia appropriations bill is ready and perhaps Treasury-Postal 
Service. The Appropriations Committee is doing its work, and its work 
is stacking up now on our calendar.
  The business before us is exactly how to proceed with the cloture 
motion filed on the Kennedy bill, which was offered as a second-degree 
amendment to the Feinstein amendment. I had suggested we would be 
willing to do it in the stacked sequence today, but I did not ask 
consent for that. We need to find some way to move forward on that 
cloture vote.
  Rather than waiting until Wednesday, I want us to find a way to have 
that vote so we can move on to what is to be the outcome of that and 
whatever follows next.

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