Senate Roll Call 800, 104th Congress · July 10, 1996
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. — S.1745 BY THURMOND (R-SC) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PARTNERSHIP ACT MILITARY PERSONNEL STALKING PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION ACT OF 1996 NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY ACT OF 1996 PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY SPECIAL EQUITY ACT OF 1996 ARMED FORCES FORCE STRUCTURES REVIEW ACT OF 1996 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL REFORM ACT OF 1996 DEFENSE AGANIST WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ACT OF 1996 TRAVEL REFORM AND SAVINGS ACT OF 1996 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITY ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION PILOT PROGRAM ACT OF 1996 WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT LAND WITHDRAWAL AMENDMENT ACT PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 (SENATE PASSED S. 1745, 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, AND TO PRESCRIBE PERSONNEL STRENGTHS FOR SUCH FISCAL YEAR FOR THE ARMED FORCES.)
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
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 expansion”
model(0.95): Authorizing defense appropriations and military personnel strengths expands military operations.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Authorizing appropriations for defense activities increases federal fiscal expenditure.
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 (68)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Sheila Frahm
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (31)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (1)
- Thad CochranDid not vote
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