[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Pages 25791-25792]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



       BANKRUPTCY REFORM ACT OF 2000--CONFERENCE REPORT--Resumed


                             cloture motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Chair lays 
before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will 
report.
  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, 
     do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the conference 
     report to accompany H.R. 2415, a bill to enhance security of 
     United States missions and personnel overseas, to authorize 
     appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal year 
     2000, and for other purposes.
         Trent Lott, Chuck Grassley, Jeff Sessions, Richard 
           Shelby, Fred Thompson, Mike Crapo, Phil Gramm, Jon Kyl, 
           Jim Bunning, Wayne Allard, Thad Cochran, Craig Thomas, 
           Connie Mack, Bill Frist, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, 
           and Frank Murkowski.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum 
call has been waived.

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  The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the 
conference report to accompany H.R. 2415, a bill to enhance security of 
United States missions and personnel overseas, to authorize 
appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal year 2000, and 
for other purposes?
  The yeas and nays are required under the rule.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. FITZGERALD (When his named was called). Present.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
Ashcroft), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Burns), the Senator from 
Tennessee (Mr. Frist), the Senator from Washington (Mr. Gorton), the 
Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Grams), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Helms), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from 
Vermont (Mr. Jeffords), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the 
Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum), and the Senator from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter) 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 New Mexico (Mr. Bingaman), 
the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from New 
Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), and the 
Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman) are necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 30, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 294 Leg.]

                                YEAS--53

     Abraham
     Allard
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee, L.
     Cleland
     Cochran
     Collins
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Johnson
     Kyl
     Lincoln
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Robb
     Roberts
     Roth
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--30

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Boxer
     Bryan
     Conrad
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Levin
     Lott
     Mikulski
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Fitzgerald
       

                             NOT VOTING--16

     Ashcroft
     Bingaman
     Burns
     Feinstein
     Frist
     Gorton
     Grams
     Helms
     Inhofe
     Jeffords
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Lieberman
     McCain
     Santorum
     Specter
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. L. Chafee). On this vote, the yeas are 53, 
the nays are 30, and 1 Senator responded present. Three-fifths of the 
Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the 
motion is rejected.
  Mr. LOTT addressed the Chair.
  Mr. MOYNIHAN. May we have order.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. May we have order in the Chamber please.
  The majority leader.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I enter a motion to reconsider the vote by 
which cloture was not invoked on the bankruptcy bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is so entered.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I note that I will renew this motion with a 
vote at a time when we have the largest possible number of Senators 
here. I note there are some absentees, and I believe that could have 
made a difference in this vote. But we will persist in our effort to 
pass this important legislation.
  I thank Senator Grassley and Senator Torricelli and all who worked 
very hard on it. We will have another vote before the year is out, 
whenever that may be.

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