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Thad Cochran

Thad Cochran on Spending & Budget

RepublicanMS

Spending & Budget3,147 votes · 83.6/100 consistent
Fiscal expansionFiscal restraint

5,346 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Spending & Budget. 3,147 of them counted toward the score above: 1,855 toward “Fiscal expansion” and 1,292 toward “Fiscal restraint”.

The other 2,199 did not count: 2,046 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 153 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

DateWhat was voted onVotedCounted as
2004-03-11To restore cuts and increase funding for homeland security programs and reduce the debt by reducing the President's tax breaks for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million a year.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-11To ensure that legislation is not enacted that increases the number of taxpayers affected by the alternative minimum tax.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2004-03-11To provide responsible restraints on discretionary funding while providing adequate resources for education, veterans, homeland security, and other critical domestic priorities and fully offsetting the cost by closing corporate tax loopholes, improving tax enforcement and reducing tax breaks for certain individuals.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-11To provide $60 billion over five years for greater health security for working Americans and their families through a combination of public and private efforts to expand quality, affordable health insurance coverage and cut health care costs by eliminating certain tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-11To provide for increased resources for medical research, disease control, wellness, tobacco cessation and preventative health efforts including substance abuse and mental health services, establishing a fund for this purpose, offset by an increase in the cigarette tax to $1 and proportional increases in other tobacco excise taxes and deficit reduction.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-11To reduce debt and require the industries responsible for producing products that contaminate toxic waste sites and industries who are exempt from liability for such contamination, to help pay for the cleanup by reinstating the Superfund polluter pays fees, and to reduce the deficit.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal expansion
2004-03-11To increase funding for COPS, Byre grants, and Local Law Enforcement Block Grants, and reduce tax breaks for certain individuals.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-11To fully fund the FIRE and SAFER Acts and reduce tax breaks for certain individuals.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-11Relative to job creation and taxes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2004-03-10To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-10To strike the outlay reconciliation instruction to the Committee on Finance.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-10To fully reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal expansion
2004-03-10To increase the amounts provided for national defense for fiscal year 2005 for new budget activity and for outlays.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaFiscal expansion
2004-03-10To provide for consideration of tax cuts outside of reconciliation.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2004-03-10To fully fund the No Child Left Behind Act for fiscal year 2005 and lower the national debt by closing tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-09To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $2.7 billion and lower the national debt by reducing the President's tax breaks for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million a year.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2004-03-09To establish a 60-vote point of order against the consideration of any direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase the on-budget deficit in any fiscal year.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal expansion
2004-01-22A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaFiscal expansion
2004-01-22A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaFiscal expansion
2004-01-20A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaFiscal expansion
2003-11-12To provide for certain capitalization grants.H.R. 2861 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-11-12A bill making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2559 · 108th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaFiscal expansion
2003-11-12To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.H.R. 1588 · 108th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaFiscal expansion
2003-11-11To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.H.R. 1588 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to ProceedYeaFiscal expansion
2003-11-06A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-11-06Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding country of origin labeling requirements.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2003-11-06To restrict the use of funds for certain conservation programs.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal expansion
2003-11-05To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-11-05To prohibit energy market manipulation.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-11-05To improve the operation of energy markets.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-11-03A bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2691 · 108th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaFiscal expansion
2003-10-28To authorize appropriations for Foreign Relations and for Foreign Assistance, and to authorize Millennium Challenge Assistance.H.R. 2800 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-10-23A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation and Treasury, and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-10-23To fund the Election Assistance Commission for fiscal year 2004.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-10-23To prohibit the use of funds for implementing the 2003 revision of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-10-23To substitute a requirement for an annual report on competitive sourcing activities on lists required under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 that are performed for executive agencies by Federal Government sources, and for other purposes.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-23To provide that Members of Congress shall not receive a cost of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2003.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal expansion
2003-10-23To prohibit the enforcement of the ban on travel to Cuba.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-17An original bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan security and reconstruction for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-10-17To reduce the amount appropriated for reconstruction in Iraq by $600,000,000 and to increase the amount available to the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps by $50,000,000, the amount available for Afghanistan by $400,000,000, and the amount available for Liberia.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-17To eliminate the flexibility given to the President to reallocate all of the $20.3 billion Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds, without approval by Congress.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-17To prohibit the use of funds for the involuntary deployment overseas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom of members of the National Guard and Reserves who have been involuntarily deployed for more than six months during the preceding six years.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-17To prohibit the use of Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds for low priority activities that should not be the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers, and shift $600 million from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund to Defense Operations and Maintenance, Army, for significantly improving efforts to secure and destroy conventional weapons, such as bombs, bomb materials, small arms, rocket propelled grenades, and shoulder-launched missiles, in Iraq.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-17To establish a National Commission on the Development and Use of Intelligence Related to Iraq.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-17To provide funds for the prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on HIV/AIDS.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
2003-10-17To make retroactive the relief of hospitalized members of the uniformed services from the obligation to pay for food or subsistence while hospitalized; and to provide an offset for the additional cost.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaFiscal expansion
2003-10-17To promote the establishment of an Iraq Reconstruction Finance Authority and the use of Iraqi oil revenues to pay for reconstruction in Iraq.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal expansion
2003-10-17To achieve the most effective means of reconstructing Iraq and to reduce the future costs to the American taxpayer of such reconstruction by ensuring broad-based international cooperation for this effort.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-17To ensure that a Federal employee who takes leave without pay in order to perform certain service as a member of the uniformed services or member of the National Guard shall continue to receive pay in an amount which, when taken together with the pay and allowances such individual is receiving for such service, will be no less than the basic pay such individual would then be receiving if no interruption in employment had occurred.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaFiscal expansion
2003-10-16To require that funds for reconstruction in Iraq be used for certain purposes.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-10-16To express the sense of the Senate that all countries that hold debt from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein should be urged to forgive their debt.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-16To express the Sense of the Senate that the Global War on Terrorism medal should be awarded expeditiously to members of the Armed Forces serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Noble Eagle.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-16To prohibit the use of funds for any contract or other financial agreement or arrangement with any entity that pays compensation in the form of deferred salary to certain United States Government officials.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-16To impose a limitation on the use of sums appropriated for the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal expansion
2003-10-15To express the sense of Congress that the removal of the Government of Saddam Hussein has enhanced the security of Israel and other United States allies.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-15To modify the report requirements with respect to the Coalition Provisional Authority.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-15To increase the end strength of the Army and to structure the additional forces for constabulary duty.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
2003-10-15To amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for nonregular service from 60 to 55.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-10-14To require that Iraqi oil revenues be used to pay for reconstruction in Iraq.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal expansion
2003-10-14To provide emergency relief for veterans healthcare, school construction, healthcare and transportation needs in the United States, and to create 95,000 new jobs.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
2003-10-14To authorize the award of the Iraqi Liberation Medal as a campaign medal for members of the Armed Forces who serve in Southwest Asia in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-10-02To provide an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-02To place the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq under the direct authority and foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-02To provide funds for the security and stabilization of Iraq by suspending a portion of the reductions in the highest income tax rate for individual taxpayers.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
2003-10-02To commend the Armed Forces of the United States in the War on Terrorism.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-10-01To strike $15.2 billion of the $20.3 billion in Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds, leaving $5.1 billion for training and equipping the Iraqi Defense Corps and Iraqi national security force and for other public safety and justice purposes.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal expansion
2003-09-25A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2658 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-09-23To strike funding for implementation of the Department of the Interior's reorganization plan for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Special Trustee and to transfer the savings to the Indian Health Service.H.R. 2691 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-09-23To prohibit the use of funds for initiating any new competitive sourcing studies.H.R. 2691 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-09-23To substitute a requirement for an annual report on competitive sourcing activities on lists required under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 that are performed for the Department of the Interior by Federal Government sources.H.R. 2691 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-09-23To strike section 333 relating to a special judicial appeals process for cases involving timber harvesting in the Tongass National Forest.H.R. 2691 · 108th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
2003-09-23To ban commercial advertising on the National Mall.H.R. 2691 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
2003-09-23To provide additional funds for clinical services of the Indian Health Service, with an offset.H.R. 2691 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
2003-09-16A bill making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2754 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-09-16To prohibit the use of funds for Department of Energy activities relating to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, Advanced Weapons Concepts, modification of the readiness posture of the Nevada Test Site, and the Modern Pit Facility, and to make the amount of funds made available by the prohibition for debt reduction.H.R. 2754 · 108th Congress · On the MotionYeaFiscal restraint
2003-09-10A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-09-10To increase funding for the National Institutes of Health.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To provide additional funds for programs relating to West Nile Virus and to fund the Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To provide an additional $100,000,000 to carry out the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program under B of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To provide additional funding for teacher quality programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Higher Education Act of 1965 and for the Mathematics and Science Partnerships and the school leadership program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To prohibit funds appropriated in this Act from being used by the Department of Education to enforce any requirement under section 1116 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, or to implement penalties or sanctions under part A of title I of such Act, if the amount appropriated to carry out such part A for fiscal year 2004 is less than $18,500,000,000.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-09-10To increase funding for the promoting safe and stable families program.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To provide additional funding for afterschool programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To restore cuts in student aid.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To increase funding for certain literacy, library, and museum programs.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To increase funding for immunization services.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To provide funding for home energy assistance needs under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To provide additional funding for programs under the Ryan White Care Act.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-10To protect the rights of employees to receive overtime compensation.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-09-09To increase funds for Head Start.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-09To provide funding for the prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on, global HIV/AIDS.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-09To increase student financial aid by an amount that matches the increase in low- and middle-income family college costs.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-09To provide additional funding for education for the disadvantaged.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-05To provide additional funding for the Fund for the Improvement of Education.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-05To provide additional funding to ensure an adequate bioterrorism preparedness workforce.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-04To provide funding for rural education.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-04To restore funding for certain programs under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-03To increase funding for a part B of the individuals with Disabilities Education Act.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-03To provide additional funding for the Impact Aid Program.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-09-03To increase funding for certain education and related programs.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Fiscal expansion / Fiscal restraint axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.