Senate Roll Call 786, 104th Congress · June 26, 1996
To ensure that the total amount authorized to be appropriated by the bill does not exceed the total amount of the authorizations of appropriations reported by the Committee on Armed Services. — (SENATE REJECTED EXON AMENDMENT NO. 4345, TO ENSURE THAT THE TOTAL AMOUNT AUTHORIZED TO BE APPROPRIATED BY THE BILL DOES NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES. .)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.85): Voting yes caps total defense spending authorizations at committee reported levels.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Adopting an amendment to cap authorizations at committee levels enforces spending limits.
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 (45)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (55)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- 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
- Pete V. Domenici
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Sheila Frahm
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- 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
Not voting or present (0)
None
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