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NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997

(Senate - July 10, 1996)

[Page: S7525]

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina.

Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all remaining votes following the vote on passage of the DOD appropriations bill be limited to 10 minutes in length, and there be 1 minute for explanation to be provided prior to the votes with respect to the Dorgan amendment and the Kassebaum amendment.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, going back to the defense bill, I just want to take this opportunity, although I have had printed the name of every staff member of the Armed Services Committee following my earlier remarks in the Record--they all did a fine job--I just want to especially commend the director, Les Brownlee, for the outstanding job he has done. He has done one of the best jobs since I have been in the Senate in connection with a defense bill.

I also would like to commend Arnold Punaro, the director on the minority side, for doing such a fine job. He has been in the Senate since 1973. We have been very fortunate to have Les Brownlee and Arnold Punaro to work with us on this defense bill.

Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, have the yeas and nays been ordered on the bill?

The PRESIDING OFFICER. They have not.

Mr. NUNN. 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.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now occurs on the passage of S. 1745, as amended.

The clerk will call the roll.

The legislative clerk called the roll.

Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. Cochran] is necessarily absent.

The result was announced, yeas 68, nays 31, as follows:

Rollcall Vote No. 187 Leg.

• Abraham
• Akaka
• Ashcroft
• Bennett
• Bingaman
• Bond
• Breaux
• Brown
• Burns
• Campbell
• Chafee
• Coats
• Cohen
• Conrad
• Coverdell
• Craig
• D'Amato
• Daschle
• DeWine
• Dodd
• Domenici
• Faircloth
• Feinstein
• Ford
• Frahm
• Frist
• Gorton
• Graham
• Gramm
• Grams
• Grassley
• Gregg
• Hatch
• Heflin
• Helms
• Hollings
• Hutchison
• Inhofe
• Inouye
• Jeffords
• Johnston
• Kassebaum
• Kempthorne
• Kyl
• Lieberman
• Lott
• Lugar
• Mack
• McCain
• McConnell
• Mikulski
• Murkowski
• Nickles
• Nunn
• Pressler
• Reid
• Robb
• Roth
• Santorum
• Shelby
• Simpson
• Smith
• Snowe
• Stevens
• Thomas
• Thompson
• Thurmond
• Warner

• Baucus
• Biden
• Boxer
• Bradley
• Bryan
• Bumpers
• Byrd
• Dorgan
• Exon
• Feingold
• Glenn
• Harkin
• Hatfield
• Kennedy
• Kerrey
• Kerry
• Kohl
• Lautenberg
• Leahy
• Levin
• Moseley-Braun
• Moynihan
• Murray
• Pell
• Pryor
• Rockefeller
• Sarbanes
• Simon
• Specter
• Wellstone
• Wyden

• Cochran

The bill (S. 1745), as amended, was passed as follows: