April 26, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5725

rule ought to be mandatory or whether

it ought to be discretionary.

I think the procedure that was followed by the judiciary was a very deliberate procedure. It involved a studied approach, and scholars spent hours

and days considering this issue. And

here we are going to consider this bill

on the floor of the Senate, highly technical in nature, in about 1 hour and 10

minutes and are going to vote on it. It

seems to me that the proper course

that we ought to follow is to follow

what the advisory committee of the

Judicial Conference did, and what the

Supreme Court recommended to the

Congress.

So, in my judgment I feel it is a mistake to adopt the Brown amendment.

Mr. BROWN addressed the Chair.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Colorado.

Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, I 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.

Mr. ROCKEFELLER addressed the

Chair.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.

Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I

wanted to note that I previously indicated that I wanted to have a tabling

motion to establish the fact that I

want this bill to be kept a product liability bill alone and not to have outside material added to it. But the prevailing sentiment of the chairman

clearly is for an up-or-down vote, and I

have yielded to that.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there

further debate on the amendment. If

not, the question is on agreeing to the

amendment of the Senator from Colorado. On this question, the yeas and

nays have been ordered, and the clerk

will call the roll.

The legislative clerk called the roll.

Mr. LOTT. I announce that the Senator from Missouri [Mr. BOND] and the

Senator from Oregon [Mr. HATFIELD]

are necessarily absent.

Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Delaware [Mr. BIDEN], the

Senator from Arkansas [Mr. BUMPERS],

the Senator from Nebraska [Mr. EXON],

the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr.

KENNEDY], and the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. PRYOR] are necessarily absent.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there

any other Senators in the Chamber

who desire to vote?

The result was announced—yeas 56,

nays 37, as follows:

[Rollcall Vote No. 136 Leg.]

YEAS—56

Abraham

Ashcroft

Baucus

Bennett

Brown

Bryan

Burns

Chafee

Coats

Cohen

Conrad

Coverdell

Craig

D’Amato

DeWine

Dole

Domenici

Dorgan

Faircloth

Frist

Gramm

Grams

Grassley

Gregg

Helms

Hutchison

Inhofe

Johnston

Kassebaum

Kempthorne

Kerry

Kohl

Kyl

Lott

Lugar

Mack

McCain

McConnell

Murkowski

Nickles

Nunn

Packwood

Pressler

Reid

Robb

Roth

Santorum

Simpson

Smith

Snowe

Specter

Stevens

Thomas

Thompson

Thurmond

Warner

NAYS—37

Akaka

Bingaman

Boxer

Bradley

Breaux

Byrd

Campbell

Cochran

Daschle

Dodd

Feingold

Feinstein

Ford

Glenn

Gorton

Graham

Harkin

Hatch

Heflin

Hollings

Inouye

Jeffords

Kerrey

Lautenberg

Leahy

Levin

Lieberman

Mikulski

Moseley-Braun

Moynihan

Murray

Pell

Rockefeller

Sarbanes

Shelby

Simon

Wellstone

NOT VOTING—7

Biden

Bond

Bumpers

Exon

Hatfield

Kennedy

Pryor

So, the amendment (No. 599) was

agreed to.

Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, I

MORNING BUSINESS

fask unanimous consent that there now

be a period for the transaction of morning business, with Senators permitted

to speak for up to 5 minutes each.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without

objection, it is so ordered.

APOLOGY TO THE GOVERNOR OF

THE STATE OF NEW YORK

fMr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, as

the senior senator from the State of

New York, and as a Democrat, I rise to

offer an apology to our Governor,

George E. Pataki, for the inexcusable

conduct of the national chair of the

Democratic National Committee yesterday in Albany.

As has now been reported, and not

disputed, Mr. Donald L. Fowler referred to our Governor as a ‘‘quasi-Governor’’. This, he said, is self-defining.

‘‘It means almost a governor, a governor who’s not quite there, a governor

who doesn’t quite have it together

* * * ’’ Later he volunteered to reporters, ‘‘You know what ‘quasi’ means. It

means half-assed.’’

In the annals of political invective,

there has been yet more vulgar calumny, but in this already sufficiently

raucus time, this will serve. But will

not be allowed to stand.

Mr. Pataki is our duly elected Governor; a person of manifest ability and

quiet dignity. It defies reason that the

national chair of the Democratic Party

should journey to the State capital for

the purpose of summoning New Yorkers to support President Clinton in the

next election, whilst simultaneously

insulting the person New Yorkers

chose to be Governor in the last election.

I am sure Mr. Fowler regrets his remarks. I await his apology. And, to say

again, tender my own on behalf of the

great majority of Democrats who

would not wish to be associated with

what has now taken place, and who

will insist that it not occur again. The

President’s task in New York will be

difficult enough; that would make it

impossible.

WAS CONGRESS IRRESPONSIBLE?

THE VOTERS HAVE SAID YES!

fMr. HELMS. Mr. President, before

contemplating today’s bad news about

the Federal debt, let’s have that little

pop quiz again:

Question: How many million dollars

are in $1 trillion? While you are arriving at an answer, remember that it was

the U.S. Congress that ran up the Federal debt that now exceeds $4.8 trillion.

To be exact, as of the close of business Tuesday, April 25, the total Federal debt—down to the penny—stood at

$4,842,767,648,608.66—meaning that

every man, woman, and child in America now owes $18,383.23 computed on a

per capita basis.

Mr. President, again to answer the

pop quiz question, How many million

in a trillion? There are a million million in a trillion; and you can thank

the U.S. Congress for the existing Federal debt exceeding $4.8 trillion.

IN MEMORY OF MARY BINGHAM

Mr. FORD. Mr. President, I would

flike to take a few moments to express

my sadness over the passing of Mary

Bingham, philanthropist and former

owner of the Louisville Courier-Journal.

It has been said that ‘‘we are defined

by those we have lost,’’ and this could

not be more true than with Mary Bingham and the city she called home for

over 60 years.

Her husband, Barry Bingham Sr.,

brought her to Louisville, and though

they forged a partnership that gave the

city a spark it had not known before,

her personal contributions both to the

newspaper and to the community at

large, stood alone.

The Louisville Courier-Journal wrote

that ‘‘for those who understood the remarkable partnership that shaped this

region’s intellectual, political and cultural climate for a century, Mary Bingham’s own stature and contributions

were never in doubt.’’

And while Mary Bingham was not a

native Kentuckian, she quickly embraced the place she would live out her

life and we were proud to call her our

own.

Throughout the years, she was always the picture of grace and

loveliness, a charming hostess and

much-in-demand guest. But Mary Bingham was not afraid to reveal the fierce

fighter within, when it came to battles

on issues most important to her from

the environment to high education

standards.

And if those passionate beliefs placed

her at odds with the powers that be,

than so be it—whether they were foes