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Senate Roll Call 903, 104th Congress · September 12, 1996

To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to gun free schools, and for other purposes. — (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE KOHL AMENDMENT NO. 5244, TO AMEND TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, TO ESTABLISH AS A FEDERAL OFFENSE THE POSSESSION OF A GUN WITHIN 1000 YARDS OF A SCHOOL.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

27 yea · 72 nayMotion to Table Failed1 not voting or present
Democrat7 yea · 40 nay
Republican19 yea · 31 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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 (0.95) Establishing a federal firearm offense is criminal policy, not spending.

    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 (27)

Nay (72)

Not voting or present (1)

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