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Senate Roll Call 728, 104th Congress · May 16, 1996

To cut corporate welfare to fund Veteran benefits. — (SENATE REJECTED EXON AMENDMENT NO. 3973 TO AMENDMENT NO. 3965, TO RESTORE FUNDS FOR VETERANS BENEFITS AND SERVICES, OFFSET BY CORPORATE TAX INCREASES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

45 yea · 53 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 2 nay
Republican0 yea · 50 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 57 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.

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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

    model(0.90): Offsetting spending through corporate tax increases raises federal revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:corporate tax

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.85): Restoring and increasing funding for veterans benefits expands federal 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 (53)

Not voting or present (2)

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