[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Pages 1363-1364]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    MAKING FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2003--
                               Continued

  Mr. BIDEN addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.
  Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I ask for the regular order.
  Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, there is a time agreement in effect.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The regular order is 2 minutes of debate 
before a vote relative to the Senator's amendment.
  Who yields time?
  Mr. McCAIN. I yield to the Senator from Hawaii for his 1 minute, and 
I will take 1 minute.
  Mr. INOUYE. Madam President, I yield back my time.
  Mr. McCAIN. I yield back my time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii.
  Mr. INOUYE. Madam President, I move to table the amendment.
  Mr. NICKLES. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second on the motion to 
table?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to the motion.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL, I announce that the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hagel) 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Breaux), 
the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Edwards), the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), and the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Sarbanes) 
are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if Present and voting, the Senator from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) would vote ``Aye''.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 33, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 8 Leg.]

                                YEAS--62

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Ensign
     Feinstein
     Frist
     Gregg
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Schumer
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Talent
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--33

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Chambliss
     Coleman
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dole
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Fitzgerald
     Graham (FL)
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Hatch
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lugar
     McCain
     Miller
     Nickles
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Sununu
     Thomas
     Voinovich

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Breaux
     Edwards
     Hagel
     Kerry
     Sarbanes
  The motion was agreed to.
  Mr. STEVENS. 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 Alaska.
  Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, what is the regular order now?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senator from 
Delaware has 20 minutes.
  Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, under the agreement he has 20 minutes 
to speak. Following that, for the information of the Senate, Senator 
Brownback has 5 minutes.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.
  Mr. BIDEN. Madam President, if I may ask the chairman of the 
Appropriations Committee, Senator Stevens, a question.
  Mr. STEVENS. Yes.
  Mr. BIDEN. Although I have been waiting a while, I can refrain from 
doing that if we are likely to move on to other votes. I do not want to 
hold people up on Friday afternoon. But if we don't have something we 
are going to go to right away--in other words, I don't want to get in 
the chairman's way. But, otherwise, I would like to speak. But I know 
it is Friday afternoon. I see people with topcoats on their laps, and 
they have places to go. I can make this the last order of business 
today. But I don't want to yield to others who are not going to speak 
on an amendment. But I will yield if you really think we are going to 
move to something and we are going to act on it. That is my point.
  I ask the Senator from Alaska if he can tell me what the plans are.
  Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, the Senator from Delaware has given us 
a chance to think. This is a good time to think. So we are happy to 
give him 20 minutes right now.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.

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