Senate Roll Call 607, 104th Congress · December 15, 1995
A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1996 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes. — H.R.1530 BY SPENCE (R-SC) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996 MISSILE DEFENSE ACT OF 1995 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996 ILLINOIS LAND CONSERVATION ACT OF 1995 PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT REFORM ACT OF 1995 (VETOED 12/28/95) (SENATE AGREED TO A MOTION TO PROCEED TO CONSIDERATION OF THE CONFERENCE REPORT.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Proceed
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) A motion to proceed to consider a measure is procedural.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) A motion to proceed to consider a bill is a floor procedural vote.
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 (66)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Dianne Feinstein
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- 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
- Paul David Wellstone
Nay (23)
- Max Baucus
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Kent Conrad
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Russell D. Feingold
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
Not voting or present (10)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Duncan McLauchlin FairclothDid not vote
- William H. FristDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- John F. KerryDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Mitch McConnellDid not vote
- Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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