[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 13144]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    BANKRUPTCY ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT OF 2001

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 333) to amend title 11, United States Code, 
     and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senator from 
Vermont is recognized.


                           Amendment No. 974

  Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, pursuant to the order of July 9, 2001, I 
send a substitute amendment on behalf of myself, Mr. Hatch, and Mr. 
Grassley to the desk.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Leahy], for himself, Mr. 
     Hatch, and Mr. Grassley, proposes an amendment numbered 974.

  Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of 
the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (The amendment is printed in today's Record under ``Amendments 
Submitted and Proposed.'')


                             CLOTURE MOTION

  Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, on behalf of the majority leader, 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 Standing rules of the Senate, 
     hereby move to bring to a close debate on the substitute 
     amendment No. 974, the text of S. 420, as passed by the 
     Senate, for H.R. 333, the bankruptcy reform bill:
         John Breaux, Harry Reid, Byron Dorgan, E. Benjamin Nelson 
           of Nebraska, Kent Conrad, Thomas Carper, Chuck 
           Grassley, Daniel Inouye, Joe Biden, Robert Torricelli, 
           Joseph Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, Max Baucus, Zell 
           Miller, James Jeffords, Tim Johnson, and Patrick Leahy.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the matter is laid 
aside until Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at 9 a.m.
  Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I yield the floor.

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