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Senate Roll Call 901, 104th Congress · September 12, 1996

A bill making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes. — (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 129, LINE 20, THROUGH PAGE 130, LINE 18, TO STRIKE SECTION 638 LIMITING THE NUMBER OF WHITE HOUSE POLITICAL APPOINTEES TO 2,300.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

36 yea · 62 nayMotion to Table Failed2 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 33 nay
Republican23 yea · 27 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3756 ↗

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government 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 (0.90) Limiting White House political appointees is a personnel rule, not spending policy.

    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 (36)

Nay (62)

Not voting or present (2)

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