[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 25501-25502]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



   MAKING FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2001

  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, are we ready to proceed?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now 
proceed to a vote on the continuing resolution relative to the 
Government funding, which the clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (H.J. Res. 120) making further 
     continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2001, and for 
     other purposes.

  The Senate proceeded to consider the joint resolution.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The joint resolution having been considered 
read the third time, the question is, Shall the joint resolution pass?
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Ashcroft), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from 
Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Burns), the 
Senator from Idaho (Mr. Craig), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo), the 
Senator from

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Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from Washington (Mr. Gorton), the 
Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Grams), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. 
Hagel), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms), the Senator from 
Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Jeffords), the 
Senator from Florida (Mr. Mack), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), 
the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell), the Senator from Delaware 
(Mr. Roth), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum), the Senator 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Thomas), 
and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Montana (Mr. Burns) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms) 
would each vote ``yea.''
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden), the 
Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from North Dakota 
(Mr. Dorgan), the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator 
from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Kohl), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), and the Senator from 
Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
North Dakota (Mr. Dorgan) would vote ``aye.''
  The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 1, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 293 Leg.]

                                YEAS--70

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bunning
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee, L.
     Cleland
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Levin
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mikulski
     Miller
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                                NAYS--1

       
     Stevens
       

                             NOT VOTING--29

     Ashcroft
     Biden
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brownback
     Burns
     Craig
     Crapo
     Dorgan
     Enzi
     Feinstein
     Gorton
     Grams
     Hagel
     Helms
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Kennedy
     Kohl
     Leahy
     Lieberman
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Roth
     Santorum
     Specter
     Thomas
     Warner
  The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 120) was passed.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote, and I move to 
lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota.
  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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