Senate Roll Call 672, 104th Congress · March 28, 1996
A bill to consolidate the foreign affairs agencies of the United States; to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and related agencies for fiscal years 1996 and 1997; to responsibly reduce the authorizations of appropriations for United States foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, and for other purposes. — H.R.1561 BY GILMAN (R-NY) -- FOREIGN RELATIONS REVITALIZATION ACT OF 1995 FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 1996-1999 SPECIAL ENVOY FOR TIBET ACT OF 1995 FOREIGN AFFAIRS REINVENTION ACT OF 1995 MIDDLE EAST PEACE FACILITATION ACT OF 1995 (VETOED APRIL 12, 1996) (SENATE AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 1561, TO CONSOLIDATE THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES OF THE UNITED STATES, TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996 AND 1997; AND TO RESPONSIBLY REDUCE THE AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR UNITED STATES FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR FISCAL YEARS 1996 AND 1997.)
Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Foreign Relations Revitalization Act of 1995
Policy area: International Affairs — 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 restraint”
model(0.90): Passing the report reduces authorized foreign assistance appropriations.
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 (52)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- 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
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- 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
Nay (44)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (4)
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Connie Mack IIIDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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