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Elizabeth H. Dole

Elizabeth H. Dole on Spending & Budget

RepublicanNC

Spending & Budget472 votes · 82.9/100 consistent
Fiscal expansionFiscal restraint

685 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Spending & Budget. 472 of them counted toward the score above: 239 toward “Fiscal expansion” and 233 toward “Fiscal restraint”.

The other 213 did not count: 203 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 10 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
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 MotionYeaFiscal expansion
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 MotionYeaFiscal expansion
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 TableNayFiscal restraint
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 MotionYeaFiscal expansion
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 MotionYeaFiscal expansion
2003-09-03To increase funding for certain education and related programs.H.R. 2660 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-24A bill making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-07-24To provide post-employment lobbying restrictions on employees of the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Homeland Security within the Executive Office of the President.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-07-24To appropriate $1,000,000,000 for grants to public transit agencies to enhance public transportation security against terrorist threats.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-24To prohibit funds appropriated under this Act from being used by any advisory committee that has been exempted from the Federal Advisory Committee Act.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-07-24To increase the funding for discretionary grants for use in high-threat urban areas and decrease funding for information analysis and infrastructure protection, science and technology, and research and development.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-07-24To increase the funding for discretionary grants for use in high-threat urban areas.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-24Fulfilling Homeland Security Promises.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
2003-07-24To fund urgent priorities for our Nation's firefighters, law enforcement personnel, and emergency medical personnel, and all Americans by reducing the 2003 tax breaks for individuals with annual income in excess of $1,000,000.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-23To make available an additional $200,000,000 to increase the number of border personnel at the northern border of the United States by the end of fiscal year 2004.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-23To appropriate $8,000,000 for the Office of the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection to conduct chemical facility security assessments.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-23To increase the amount of the appropriation for firefighter assistance grants by $150,000,000.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-23To increase the funds for research and development related to transportation security, and for other purposes.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-23To provide funds to increase maritime security.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
2003-07-23To increase funding for emergency management performance grants.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-23To require a classified report to Congress on the security costs incurred by State and local government law enforcement personnel in each state in complying with requests and requirements of the United States Secret Service to provide protective services and transportation for foreign and domestic officials.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayDirection not readable
2003-07-22To fulfill Homeland Security promises.H.R. 2555 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
2003-07-17A 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
2003-07-11A 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 Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-07-11A bill making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2657 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-05-23A joint resolution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.H.J.Res. 51 · 108th Congress · On the Joint ResolutionYeaFiscal expansion
2003-05-23To limit the applicability of public debt limit to social security trust funds.H.J.Res. 51 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-05-23To extend the current-law pay-as-you-go requirement.H.J.Res. 51 · 108th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal expansion
2003-05-23To extend the Temporary Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, to provide additional weeks of temporary extended unemployment compensation, and to make extended unemployment benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act temporarily available for employees.H.J.Res. 51 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
2003-05-23To express the sense of the Senate that Social Security cost-of-living adjustments should not be reduced.H.J.Res. 51 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
2003-05-23To reduce the amount by which the statutory limit on the public debt is increased.H.J.Res. 51 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal expansion
2003-05-22An original bill to 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.S. 1050 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-05-15To improve access to higher education for middle-income families by making resources available to expand the Hope and Lifetime Learning Scholarship Credits and for lower-income families by making resources available to increase the maximum Pell Grant to $4500 and to provide an equal amount for deficit reduction by eliminating the 10 percent dividend tax exclusion for amounts above $500 and eliminating acceleration of the 38.6 percent income tax rate education.S. 1054 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal restraint
2003-04-11A concurrent resolution establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2004 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2003 and 2005 through 2013.H.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaDirection not readable
2003-04-03An original bill making supplemental appropriations to support Department of Defense operations in Iraq, Department of Homeland Security, and Related Efforts for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.S. 762 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaFiscal expansion
2003-04-03To provide humanitarian food assistance in connection with U.S. activities in Iraq.S. 762 · 108th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaFiscal expansion
2003-04-03To increase the appropriation for the Office for Domestic Preparedness, Department of Homeland Security, by $2,330,000,000.S. 762 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal 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.