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 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

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Vol. 141 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1995 No. 88 

Senate 

(Legislative day of Monday, May 15, 1995) 

The Senate met at 9 a.m., on the expiration of the recess, and was called to 

order by the President pro tempore 

[Mr. THURMOND]. 

PRAYER

The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John 

Ogilvie, offered the following prayer: 

Gracious God, our source of spiritual, 

intellectual, and physical strength, we 

thank You for a good night’s rest after 

an intensely busy yesterday, filled with 

many votes in a long and demanding 

agenda. Now, You have replenished our 

wells of energy and given us a fresh 

new day in which we have the privilege 

of serving You. Lord, it’s great to be 

alive. 

Lord, grant the Senators more than 

the courage of their convictions. Rather, give them convictions that arise 

from Your gift of courage. May this indomitable courage be rooted in profound times of listening to You that result in a relentless commitment to 

truth that is expressed in convictions 

that cannot be compromised. 

We trust You to guide them so that 

all they say and decide is in keeping 

with Your will. We ask for Your wisdom in the crucial matter to be voted 

on today. Lord, take command of their 

minds and their thinking, speak Your 

truth through their speaking, and then 

give them clarity for hard choices. 

Help them to live this day to the fullest. In Your holy name. Amen. 

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RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under 

the previous order, leadership time is 

reserved. 

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SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND RESCISSIONS 

ACT, 1995—CONFERENCE REPORT 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under 

the previous order, the Senate will now 

proceed to vote on the conference report to accompany H.R. 1158, which the 

clerk will report. 

The assistant legislative clerk read 

as follows: 

The conference report to accompany H.R. 

1158, an act making emergency supplemental 

appropriations for additional disaster assistance, and making rescissions for the fiscal 

year ending September 30, 1995, and for other 

purposes. 

The Senate resumed consideration of 

the conference report. 

Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, I 

ask for the yeas and nays. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is 

there a sufficient second? 

There is a sufficient second. 

The yeas and nays were ordered. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The 

question is on agreeing to the conference report. On this question, the 

yeas and nays have been ordered, and 

the clerk will call the roll. 

The bill clerk called the roll. 

Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Maryland [Ms. MIKULSKI] is 

necessarily absent. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. 

COVERDELL). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber who desire to 

vote? 

The result was announced—yeas 61, 

nays 38, as follows: 

[Rollcall Vote No. 203 Leg.] 

YEAS—61 

Abraham 

Ashcroft 

Bennett 

Bond 

Boxer 

Brown 

Burns 

Byrd 

Campbell 

Coats 

Cochran 

Cohen 

Coverdell 

Craig 

D’Amato 

DeWine 

Dole 

Domenici 

Faircloth 

Feinstein 

Frist 

Gorton 

Gramm 

Grams 

Grassley 

Gregg 

Hatch 

Hatfield 

Helms 

Hutchison 

Inhofe 

Inouye 

Jeffords 

Johnston 

Kassebaum 

Kempthorne 

Kerrey 

Kohl 

Kyl 

Lott 

Lugar 

Mack 

McCain 

McConnell 

Murkowski 

Nickles 

Packwood 

Pressler 

Reid 

Roth 

Santorum 

Shelby 

Simpson 

Smith 

Snowe 

Specter 

Stevens 

Thomas 

Thompson 

Thurmond 

Warner 

NAYS—38 

Akaka 

Baucus 

Biden 

Bingaman 

Bradley 

Breaux 

Bryan 

Bumpers 

Chafee 

Conrad 

Daschle 

Dodd 

Dorgan 

Exon 

Feingold 

Ford 

Glenn 

Graham 

Harkin 

Heflin 

Hollings 

Kennedy 

Kerry 

Lautenberg 

Leahy 

Levin 

Lieberman 

Moseley-Braun 

Moynihan 

Murray 

Nunn 

Pell 

Pryor 

Robb 

Rockefeller 

Sarbanes 

Simon 

Wellstone 

NOT VOTING—1 

Mikulski 

So the conference report was agreed 

to. 

Mr. HATFIELD. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent to proceed for 2 

minutes on this rescissions package. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

Mr. HATFIELD. Mr. President, I 

merely wanted to say, in conclusion of 

this process on the rescissions package, 

I am very hopeful that the President 

will sign this bill. If he does not sign 

this bill, of course, there are problems 

relating particularly to the supplemental appropriations that are included in this bill. 

We have worked long and hard on 

this. I want to take this occasion to 

thank my colleague from the Democratic side of the aisle, Senator BYRD, 

the ranking member of the full committee; each of subcommittee chairs 

and each of the subcommittee ranking 

members, and the extraordinary staff 

that we have on both sides that have 

worked together very carefully. 

Mr. President, I cannot predict what 

will happen. There have been discussions between the Republican leadership of the House and the Senate with 

the White House wondering if there 

might be a better way to achieve a 

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