[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 6, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12069-S12070]
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  DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
          RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2000--Continued


                       Vote on Amendment No. 1889

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question is on 
agreeing to amendment No. 1889 to amendment No. 1851. The yeas and nays 
have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 46, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 313 Leg.]

                                YEAS--54

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     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--46

     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
     McCain
     Mikulski
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
     Wyden
  The amendment (No. 1889) was agreed to.
  Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. COVERDELL. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the next 
order of business be 9 minutes for the Senator from North Carolina, Mr. 
Helms. I

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further ask consent that Senator Lautenberg be recognized to offer a 
second-degree amendment and there be up to 1 hour for debate equally 
divided in the usual form. I further ask consent that upon the use or 
yielding back of the time, the vote on the Lautenberg amendment be 
stacked for consideration later today.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bunning). Is there objection?
  Mr. WELLSTONE. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I withdraw the request. Why, I don't 
understand, but I will withdraw the request because it is faster to do 
that than to find out what the reason is why we can't stack. I say, by 
way of explanation, if we stack the votes, we can move more 
expeditiously to dispose of the Senate's business. But I hear an 
objection to that.
  I ask unanimous consent that after Senator Helms is recognized for 9 
minutes, that we proceed to Senator Lautenberg's second-degree 
amendment for 1 hour, equally divided, and that the Senate vote in 
relation to the Lautenberg second-degree amendment without intervening 
action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is 
so ordered.
  Mr. SPECTER. Might I add, before proceeding to Senator Helms' 
recognition, Senator Harkin and I are in agreement, as are others 
managing the bill, to try to get time agreements for 30 minutes equally 
divided. If we are to move the bill, we need to do that. I think it is 
not inappropriate to say that we can get as much done in 30 minutes 
equally divided as we can with an hour equally divided. I yield the 
floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.
  Mr. HARKIN. I concur with the Senator.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senator from 
North Carolina is recognized for 9 minutes.

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