[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 21, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S11096]
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                 BANKRUPTCY REFORM ACT OF 1999--Resumed


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the hour of 5:30 
having arrived, the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture.
  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. 
     109, S. 625, a bill to amend title 11 of the United States 
     Code, and for other purposes:
         Trent Lott, Chuck Grassley, Paul Coverdell, Mike Crapo, 
           Craig Thomas, Larry Craig, Orrin Hatch, Don Nickles, 
           Conrad Burns, Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, Fred 
           Thompson, Slade Gorton, Phil Gramm, and Mike DeWine.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call under rule XXII is waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on S. 625, 
a bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other 
purposes, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative assistant called the roll.
  Mr. FITZGERALD (when his name was called). Present.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Allard). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 280 Leg.]

                                YEAS--53

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

                                NAYS--45

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

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Fitzgerald
       

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     McCain
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 53, the nays are 45, 
and one Senator responded ``present.'' Three-fifths of the Senators 
duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion 
is rejected.
  Several Senators addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming.

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