[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 20033]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ACT OF 2000


                             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 report.
  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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the pending 
     first-degree amendment (No. 4177) to Calendar No. 490, S. 
     2045, a bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act 
     with respect to H-1B non-immigrant aliens:
         Trent Lott, Gordon Smith of Oregon, Judd Gregg, Wayne 
           Allard, Conrad Burns, Craig Thomas, Rick Santorum, Thad 
           Cochran, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, Spencer Abraham, 
           Kay Bailey Hutchison, Connie Mack, George Voinovich, 
           Larry Craig, James Inhofe, and Jeff Sessions.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate 
that debate on amendment No. 4177 to S. 2045, a bill to amend the 
Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to H-1B non-immigrant 
aliens, 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 Arizona (Mr. McCain) 
and the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Thomas) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. 
Feinstein), 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 
Washington (Mrs. Murray) would vote ``aye.''
  The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 92, nays 3, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 260 Leg.]

                                YEAS--92

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee, L.
     Cleland
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Miller
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--3

     Hollings
     Reed
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Feinstein
     Lieberman
     McCain
     Murray
     Thomas
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote the yeas are 92, the nays are 3. 
Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the 
affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, may I ask about the order and the 
unanimous consent that is pending?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator now has 20 minutes.
  Mr. MURKOWSKI. I thank the Chair.

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