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Senate Roll Call 879, 104th Congress · September 4, 1996

A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes. — H.R.3666 BY LEWIS, JERRY (R-CA) -- DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1997 NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT REDUCTION ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1996 NEWBORNS' AND MOTHERS' HEALTH PROTECTION ACT OF 1996 MENTAL HEALTH PARITY ACT OF 1996 (PUB. L. 104-204, APPROVED 9/26/96) (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ON PAGE 104, LINES 21 THROUGH 24, RELATING TO NASA'S BION MISSION.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

42 yea · 54 nayMotion to Table Failed4 not voting or present
Democrat22 yea · 24 nay
Republican19 yea · 29 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3666 ↗

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) The amendment text does not state whether funding for NASA's Bion mission was being increased or decreased.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (42)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (4)

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