[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 132 (Thursday, October 19, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10769-S10770]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            BANKRUPTCY REFORM ACT OF 2000--CONFERENCE REPORT


                           Motion to Proceed

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I move to proceed to the conference report 
containing the bankruptcy reform bill, H.R. 2415, and I ask for the 
yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to 
be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to the motion. The clerk will call the 
roll.

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  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Montana (Mr. Burns), 
the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. 
Grams), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms), and the Senator 
from Arizona (Mr. McCain) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. 
Lieberman), and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 279 Leg.]

                                YEAS--89

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Bunning
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee, L.
     Cleland
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Craig
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Frist
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Miller
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Fitzgerald
       

                             NOT VOTING--10

     Burns
     Crapo
     Feinstein
     Grams
     Helms
     Inouye
     Kerry
     Lieberman
     McCain
     Murray
  The motion was agreed to.

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