Senate Roll Call 455, 103rd Congress · March 16, 1994
A bill to amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to enhance manufacturing technology development and transfer, to authorize appropriations for the Technology Administration of the Department of Commerce, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and for other purposes. — H.R.820 BY VALENTINE (D-NC) -- NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS ACT OF 1994 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AND EXTENSION ACT OF 1994 WIND ENGINEERING PROGRAM ACT OF 1994 ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE CONSTRUCTION ACT OF 1994 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS PROGRAM ACT OF 1994 COUNTERINTELLIGENCE IMPROVEMENTS ACT OF 1994 LOCAL EMPOWERMENT AND FLEXIBILITY ACT OF 1994 HEROIC EFFORTS TO RESCUE OTHERS ACT ECONOMIC AND EMPLOYMENT IMPACT ACT (SENATE PASSED H.R. 820, TO AMEND THE STEVENSON-WYDLER TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ACT OF 1980 TO ENHANCE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER, AND TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, INCLUDING THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, AS AMENDED.)
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Competitiveness Act of 1994
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Passing the bill authorizes federal spending for technology and manufacturing programs.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (59)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Harlan Mathews
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (40)
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (1)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
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