[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 19, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12799-S12800]
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            BIPARTISAN CAMPAIGN REFORM ACT OF 1999--Resumed

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will report the pending business.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1593) to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act 
     of 1971 to provide bipartisan campaign reform.

  Pending:
       Daschle amendment No. 2298, in the nature of a substitute.
       Reid amendment No. 2299 (to amendment No. 2298), of a 
     perfecting nature.
       Wellstone amendment No. 2306 (to the text of the language 
     proposed to be stricken by amendment No. 2298), to allow a 
     State to enact voluntary public financing legislation 
     regarding the election of Federal candidates in such State.


                             Cloture Motion

  The VICE PRESIDENT. Under the previous order, the clerk will report 
the motion to invoke cloture.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

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                             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 the debate on the Daschle 
     amendment No. 2298, to S. 1593.
         Tom Daschle, Chuck Robb, Mary L. Landrieu, Joseph 
           Lieberman, Jack Reed, Max Baucus, Barbara Boxer, 
           Richard H. Bryan, Jeff Bingaman, Tim Johnson, Harry 
           Reid, Robert G. Torricelli, Blanche L. Lincoln, Dianne 
           Feinstein, Jay D. Rockefeller, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Daniel K. Akaka, Ron Wyden, Byron L. Dorgan, and Tom 
           Harkin.

  The VICE PRESIDENT. Under the previous order, the mandatory quorum 
call under the rule has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
Daschle amendment No. 2298 to S. 1593, a bill to amend the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide bipartisan campaign reform, 
shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative assistant called the roll.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Inhofe). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 48, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 330 Leg.]

                                YEAS--52

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

                                NAYS--48

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Cochran
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thurmond
     Voinovich
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this voter the yeas are 52, the nays are 
48. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The Senator from South Dakota.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent I be allowed to 
speak out of order for no more than 5 minutes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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