[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 165 (Monday, December 19, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S14014-S14015]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006--CONFERENCE 
                                 REPORT

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       The Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
     two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
     1815), to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for 
     military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
     military construction, and for defense activities of the 
     Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
     strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes, 
     having met, have agreed that the House recede from its 
     disagreement to the amendment of the Senate, and agree to the 
     same with an amendment, and the Senate agree to the same, 
     signed by a majority of the conferees on the part of both 
     Houses.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will proceed to the consideration 
of the conference report.
  (The conference report is reprinted in the House proceedings of the 
Record of Sunday, December 18, 2005.)
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.


                             Cloture Motion

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I send a cloture motion to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under 
rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                             Cloture Motion

       We the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the 
     provisions of rule XXII of the

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     Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby move to bring to a 
     close debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 1815, 
     the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2006.
         Bill Frist, John Warner, Mel Martinez, Lisa Murkowski, 
           Mitch McConnell, Bob Bennett, George Allen, John Thune, 
           Michael B. Enzi, Jeff Sessions, Johnny Isakson, Judd 
           Gregg, Tom Coburn, Ted Stevens, Conrad Burns, Kay 
           Bailey Hutchison, Pat Roberts.

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