Senate Roll Call 579, 104th Congress · November 16, 1995
A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes. — H.R.2126 BY YOUNG, BILL (R-FL) -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1996 (PUB. L. 104-61, APPROVED 12/1/95) (SENATE AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R 2126, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1996.)
Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1996
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.
- Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.90): Approving the defense appropriations conference report expands funding for military programs and defense operations.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Passing the defense appropriations bill grants fiscal spending authority for the Department of Defense.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations act,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)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (39)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- John McCain
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (1)
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
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