An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel stengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE BILL.)

The measure

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(0.95): Cloture advances the annual defense authorization bill.

  Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

  Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

• Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

  model(0.95): Cloture advances the defense authorization bill authorizing major federal spending.

  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.