[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 139 (Thursday, October 14, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S12610]
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    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, 2000--CONFERENCE REPORT--
                               Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the hour of 4 p.m. 
having arrived, the Senate will now proceed to vote on the conference 
report accompanying H.R. 2561, which the clerk will report.
  The legislative assistant read as follows:

       Conference report accompanying H.R. 2561, making 
     appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

  Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. 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 conference 
report. The yeas and nays have been ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative assistant called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Kennedy) and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) are necessarily 
absent.
  I further announce that if present and voting the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy) would vote ``aye.''
  The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 11, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 326 Leg.]

                                YEAS--87

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kerrey
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--11

     Bayh
     Boxer
     Feingold
     Fitzgerald
     Graham
     Harkin
     Kohl
     McCain
     Robb
     Voinovich
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Kennedy
     Kerry
       
  The conference report was agreed to.
  Ms. COLLINS. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. GRASSLEY. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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