[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 178 (Thursday, December 20, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Pages S13864-S13865]
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  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2002--CONFERENCE REPORT--
                               Continued

  Mr. DASCHLE. Madam President, it is my understanding we now have 
agreement to go directly to the vote on the conference report to H.R. 
3338. I appreciate everyone's cooperation in that regard and I ask that 
the Senate proceed. For the interest of all Senators, this will be the 
last vote of the day.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
  The Senator from West Virginia.
  Mr. BYRD. I will take 30 seconds. I had agreed, in the interest of 
letting Senators catch their planes, to having the vote and then have 
my statement concerning the homeland defense part appear in the Record 
as though spoken before the vote. That unanimous consent was not agreed 
to and others spoke. The Senator from Arizona spoke. It was my 
understanding we would all give up that privilege and we would vote 
without speaking. Others have spoken. I am not going to stand in the 
way of Senators going home on this occasion, so I want to make it clear 
I did not object in the beginning so everybody who had speeches could 
make them.
  I am willing to give up my speech right now. It is a great speech, 
but I will make it after the vote. I wanted to call it to the attention 
of the Senate that I kind of begrudgingly agreed to that request.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the conference 
report.
  Mr. DASCHLE. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to the concurrent resolution.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Akaka) is 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), 
the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), and the Senator from North 
Carolina (Mr. Helms) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 94, nays 2, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 380 Leg.]

                                YEAS--94

     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carnahan
     Carper
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     Dayton
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                                NAYS--2

     Gramm
     McCain
       
       

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Akaka
     Bond
     Ensign
     Helms
  The conference report (H.R. 3338) was agreed to.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. LOTT. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. LOTT. Madam President, if I may take just one moment. I see 
Senator Daschle is getting ready to propound some unanimous consent 
requests.
  Let me take a moment to say to the managers of the legislation and 
the chairman and ranking member of the committee, I know this has not 
been easy. There have been a lot of great ideas on both sides of the 
aisle as to how we could improve it or change it. You have been 
tenacious, you stuck with it, and you produced a good piece of 
legislation that is important for our country, important for our men 
and women in uniform.
  This very morning the President called and said he was pleased with 
the result and he appreciates the leadership the Senate gave in this 
area.

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  I commend all of you, Senator Inouye, Senator Stevens, and Senator 
Byrd, for the work that has been done here.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Madam President, I concur in the comments made by the 
Republican leader. We should note that this completes our work on all 
13 appropriations bills. I commend both the chair and the ranking 
member for their work in getting us to this point. This was not easy, 
especially this year. It would not have happened were it not for the 
tremendous effort made by each of the subcommittee chairs. I note 
especially the efforts of the Senator from Hawaii on the Defense 
appropriations bill, the largest of all bills with which we had to 
contend.
  I congratulate them. I thank them. I note, again, the great work they 
have done in getting us to this point.

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