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cr06mr98S INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT OF 1997 
     Size: 142497 , Score: 708 , TEXT , PDF , SUMMARY


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Mr. CHAFEE. Mr. President, I move to table the amendment and ask for 
the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
table the amendment. The yeas and nays are ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Bennett), 
the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Coats), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Helms), and the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison) are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Glenn) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Smith of Oregon). Are there any other 
Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 37, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 23 Leg.]

                                YEAS--58

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Collins
     Conrad
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Graham
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     McCain
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Torricelli
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                                NAYS--37

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Brownback
     Burns
     Cochran
     Coverdell
     Craig
     DeWine
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Frist
     Gorton
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McConnell
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Bennett
     Coats
     Glenn
     Helms
     Hutchison
  The motion to lay on the table the amendment (No. 1708) was agreed 
to.
  Mr. CHAFEE. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. LOTT. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.