Senate Roll Call 807, 104th Congress · July 17, 1996
To ensure that work under Department of Defense contracts is performed in the United States. — S.1894 BY STEVENS (R-AK) -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1997 (SENATE REJECTED SIMON AMENDMENT NO. 4591, TO ENSURE THAT WORK UNDER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACTS IS PERFORMED IN THE UNITED STATES.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A domestic procurement requirement on contracts does not expand or restrain military capabilities.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Domestic contracting restrictions represent domestic preference regulations rather than direct spending adjustments.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations act,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 (69)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- 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
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Sheila Frahm
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Jon Kyl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- 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
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (29)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Barbara Boxer
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Russell D. Feingold
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (2)
- James M. JeffordsDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
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