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Senate Roll Call 888, 104th Congress · September 5, 1996

To provide that funding for Veterans medical care shall not be reduced to states. — (SENATE TABLED HARKIN/MOYNIHAN/SPECTER AMENDMENT NO. 5197, TO PROVIDE THAT VA FUNDING FOR A STATE SHALL NOT BE REDUCED.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

60 yea · 37 nayMotion to Table Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat15 yea · 31 nay
Republican45 yea · 4 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that prevents VA funding reductions allows potential spending cuts.

    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 (60)

Nay (37)

Not voting or present (3)

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