[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14450]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                        2000--MOTION TO PROCEED


                             Cloture Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, pursuant to rule 
XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, 
which the clerk will state.
  The 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 the Transportation Appropriations bill:
         Senators Trent Lott, Pete Domenici, Paul Coverdell, Thad 
           Cochran, Pat Roberts, Jesse Helms, Chuck Hagel, Judd 
           Gregg, Ted Stevens, Slade Gorton, William V. Roth, Jr., 
           Bob Smith of New Hampshire, Craig Thomas, Mike Crapo, 
           James M. Inhofe, and Frank H. Murkowski.


                            Call Of The Roll

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the quorum call under 
rule XXII has been waived.


                                  Vote

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on the motion to proceed to S. 1143, the transportation 
appropriations bill, shall be brought to a close?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule. The clerk will call 
the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Washington (Mr. 
Gorton), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Jeffords), and the 
Senator from Alaska (Mr. Murkowski) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), 
the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Edwards), the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), 
the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Torricelli), and the Senator from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Kohl) are necessarily absent.
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 49, nays 40, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 185 Leg.]

                                YEAS--49

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cochran
     Collins
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchison
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Voinovich

                                NAYS--40

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Mikulski
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Boxer
     Edwards
     Gorton
     Hutchinson
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Lieberman
     Murkowski
     Torricelli
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 
40.
  Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted 
in the affirmative, the motion is rejected.

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