Senate Roll Call 729, 104th Congress · May 16, 1996
To restore funds to the Veteran's Administration Medical Care program, offset by a reduction in welfare benefits. — (SENATE AGREED TO BOND AMENDMENT NO. 3971 TO AMENDMENT NO. 3965, TO RESTORE FUNDS TO THE VETERAN'S ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CARE PROGRAM, OFFSET BY A REDUCTION IN WELFARE BENEFITS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The amendment is a net-neutral spending transfer between VA medical funding and welfare accounts.
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 (75)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- 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 (23)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (2)
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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