[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 19, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S12803]
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           BIPARTISAN CAMPAIGN REFORM ACT OF 1999--Continued


                             cloture motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the cloture motion 
having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to 
read the motion.
  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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the Reid 
     amendment No. 2299.
         Tom Daschle, Chuck Robb, Barbara Boxer, Joseph I. 
           Lieberman, Jack Reed, Richard Bryan, Jeff Bingaman, Tim 
           Johnson, Harry Reid, Blanche L. Lincoln, Dianne 
           Feinstein, John D. Rockefeller IV, Richard J. Durbin, 
           Daniel K. Akaka, Ron Wyden, Byron L. Dorgan, Tom 
           Harkin, and Barbara A. Mikulski.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the mandatory call 
of the roll under the rules has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
Reid amendment No. 2299 to S. 1593, a bill to amend the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 47, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 331 Leg.]

                                YEAS--53

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

                                NAYS--47

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cochran
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thurmond
     Voinovich
     Warner
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Crapo). On this vote, the yeas are 53, the 
nays are 47. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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