[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 25, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9185-S9186]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  2003

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now 
resume consideration of H.R. 5093, which the clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 5093) making appropriations for the Department 
     of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.

  Pending:

       Byrd amendment No. 4472 in the nature of a substitute.
       Byrd amendment No. 4480 (to amendment No. 4472), to provide 
     funds to repay accounts from which funds were borrowed for 
     emergency wildfire suppression.
       Craig/Domenici amendment No. 4518 (to amendment No. 4480), 
     to reduce hazardous fuels on our national forests.
       Byrd/Stevens amendment No. 4532 (to amendment No. 4472), to 
     provide for critical emergency supplemental appropriations.


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the clerk will 
report the motion to invoke cloture.
  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, 
     hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the Byrd 
     amendment No. 4480, as amended, to H.R. 5093, the Department 
     of Interior Appropriations bill, 2003.
         Debbie Stabenow, Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Evan Bayh, 
           Mark Dayton,

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           Jeff Bingaman, Jim Jeffords, Joseph Lieberman, Bill 
           Nelson of Florida, Blanche L. Lincoln, Byron L. Dorgan, 
           Jack Reed, Patrick Leahy, Robert C. Byrd, Mary 
           Landrieu, Max Baucus.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call under the rule is waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
Byrd amendment No. 4480 to H.R. 5093, the Interior appropriations bill, 
shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are required under rule 
XXII, and the clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Torricelli) is necessarily absent.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Helms) is necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 47, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 224 Leg.]

                                YEAS--51

     Akaka
     Allard
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carnahan
     Carper
     Cleland
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Miller
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                                NAYS--47

     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Chafee
     Cochran
     Collins
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Voinovich
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Helms
     Torricelli
       
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 51. The nays are 
47. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, can we have order?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will come to order. The majority 
leader.
  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote 
by which cloture was not invoked on the Byrd amendment No. 4480, as 
amended.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has that right. The motion is 
entered.

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