[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 164 (Thursday, November 18, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S14798-S14799]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2000--CONFERENCE REPORT

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate 
the conference report to accompany the DC appropriations bill, H.R. 
3194, and the conference report be considered as having been read.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Mr. FEINGOLD. I ask for the reading.
  Mr. LOTT. Is there objection?
  Mr. FEINGOLD. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  Mr. LOTT. I ask that the Senate now proceed to the conference report, 
and before the clerk begins reading, I announce to my colleagues, 
Senator Kohl has indicated to me, following the conclusion of the 
reading, he will insist on the conduct of a rollcall vote on the motion 
to proceed to the conference report.
  Therefore, a procedural rollcall vote will occur at approximately 
9:30 this evening.
  Mr. FEINGOLD addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the conference report.
  The legislative clerk read the conference report.
  (The conference report is printed in the House proceedings of the 
Record of November 17, 1999.)
  Mr. MACK. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Enzi). Is there a sufficient second? There 
appears to be a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  Mr. MACK. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I believe the regular order is for the vote 
to begin.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
proceed. The yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the 
roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Ashcroft), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from 
Kentucky (Mr. Bunning), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Frist), the 
Senator from Washington (Mr. Gorton), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. 
Hutchison), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), and the Senator from 
Oregon (Mr. Smith) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from New York 
(Mr. Moynihan), and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) are 
necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 8, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 369 Leg.]

                                YEAS--80

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee, L.
     Cleland
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell

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     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--8

     Byrd
     Conrad
     Dorgan
     Feingold
     Fitzgerald
     Grams
     Kohl
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--12

     Ashcroft
     Bond
     Boxer
     Bunning
     Frist
     Gorton
     Hutchison
     Lautenberg
     McCain
     Moynihan
     Schumer
     Smith (OR)
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair recognizes the majority leader.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk to the 
pending conference report.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The assistant 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 the conference report to accompany the District of 
Columbia appropriations bill:
         Trent Lott, Ted Stevens, Larry E. Craig, Judd Gregg, Tim 
           Hutchinson, Don Nickles, Mike Crapo, Connie Mack, Slade 
           Gorton, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Arlen Specter, Pat 
           Roberts, Chuck Hagel, Richard Shelby, Thad Cochran, and 
           John Warner.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent this cloture vote 
occur at 3 p.m. on Friday, November 19, and the mandatory quorum call 
be waived.
  Mr. FEINGOLD. I object.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
  Mr. LOTT. Unfortunately, our colleague from Wisconsin has chosen to 
object to what I think is a reasonable request, which would give us an 
opportunity to have a full debate and then get to a final vote on this 
issue. It would be a few hours to do that. However, that is his right.
  Therefore, Senators should expect this cloture vote to occur at 1:01 
a.m. Saturday, November 20; 1:01 a.m., Saturday, November 20. I just 
want to make sure everybody understands. That is early morning.
  At that time, when we invoke cloture, then we can, in a relatively 
short period of time, go to a final vote.

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