Senate Roll Call 788, 104th Congress · June 26, 1996

To restore funding for certain educational and employment assistance programs to levels requested by the President by authorizing the Secretary of Defense to transfer defense funds that are excess to the funding levels provided in the future-years defense program and to the other funding objectives of the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. — (SENATE TABLED THE WELLSTONE AMENDMENT NO. 4347, TO RESTORE FUNDING FOR CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL AND EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS TO LEVELS REQUESTED BY THE PRESIDENT.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

60 yea · 40 nayMotion to Table Agreed to

Democrat9 yea · 38 nay

Republican50 yea · 1 nay

Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1745 ↗

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 expansion”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that transfers defense funds to civilian programs preserves defense funding.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (60)

Nay (40)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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