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Senate Roll Call 616, 104th Congress · January 26, 1996

To provide for additional funding to the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF HARKIN AMENDMENT NO. 3122, TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO THE OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

45 yea · 45 nayMotion Rejected9 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 3 nay
Republican2 yea · 41 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2880 ↗

Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Voting yes to consider additional funding for the HHS Inspector General favors higher spending.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (45)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (9)

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