Senate Roll Call 892, 104th Congress · September 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 strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. — H.R.3230 BY SPENCE (R-SC) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 MILITARY FORCE STRUCTURE REVIEW ACT OF 1996 NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY ACT OF 1996 RESERVE FORCES REVITALIZATION ACT OF 1996 DEFENSE AGAINST WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ACT OF 1996 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL POLICY ACT OF 1996 FEDERAL EMPLOYEE TRAVEL REFORM ACT OF 1996 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 FORT CARSON-PINON CANYON MILITARY LANDS WITHDRAWAL ACT EL CENTRO NAVAL AIR FACILITY RANGES WITHDRAWAL ACT WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT LAND WITHDRAWAL AMENDMENT ACT PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 PANAMA CANAL ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1996 (PUB.L. 104-201, APPROVED 9/23/96) (SENATE AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 3230, 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 the Conference Report
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): Authorizes defense spending and 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): Authorizes federal budget expenditures for national defense.
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 (73)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- 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
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Jon Kyl
- Carl Levin
- 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 (26)
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (1)
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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