[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 48 (Wednesday, April 7, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S3894]
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  PREGNANCY AND TRAUMA CARE ACCESS PROTECTION ACT OF 2004--MOTION TO 
                           PROCEED--Continued


                             cloture motion

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the hour 
of 2:15 p.m. having arrived, the Senate will proceed to a vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the consideration 
of S. 2207.
  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 debate on the motion to 
     proceed to Calendar No. 462, S. 2207, a bill to improve 
     women's access to health care services and the access of all 
     individuals to emergency and trauma care services, by 
     reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on 
     the delivery of such service.
         Bill Frist, Orrin Hatch, Judd Gregg, John Ensign, Lamar 
           Alexander, Peter Fitzgerald, Larry Craig, John Cornyn, 
           Robert Bennett, Mike Enzi, Mitch McConnell, Ted 
           Stevens, Norm Coleman, James Inhofe, Kay Bailey 
           Hutchison, George Voinovich, Charles Grassley.

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. By unanimous consent the mandatory 
quorum call has been waived.
  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
motion to proceed to the consideration of S. 2207, the Pregnancy and 
Trauma Care Access Protection Act of 2004, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
   Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 
Kerry), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), and the Senator 
from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent.
   I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) would vote ``no.''
   The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 48, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 66 Leg.]

                                YEAS--49

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--48

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Clinton
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Crapo
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham (FL)
     Graham (SC)
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Kerry
     Lieberman
     Murray
   The motion was rejected.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 49 and 
the nays are 48. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not 
having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.

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