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Senate Roll Call 119, 105th Congress · June 25, 1997

To allow vocational educational training to be counted as a work activity under the temporary assistance for needy families program for 24 months. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE SECTION 310 OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF LAUTENBERG (FOR LEVIN) AMENDMENT NO. 482, TO ALLOW VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TRAINING TO BE COUNTED AS A WORK ACTIVITY UNDER THE TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES PROGRAM FOR 24 MONTHS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

55 yea · 45 nayMotion Rejected
Democrat45 yea · 0 nay
Republican8 yea · 45 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 947 ↗

Balanced Budget Act of 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 expansion”

    model(0.85): Waiving budget rules to expand TANF work activity definitions increases program eligibility and 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 (55)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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