Senate Roll Call 161, 105th Congress · July 8, 1997
An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 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. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE FAILED TO AGREE TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE BILL.)
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998
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(0.90): Voting for cloture advances the defense authorization bill, supporting military expansion.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Voting for cloture advances a major defense spending authorization bill.
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 (46)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Susan M. Collins
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- William H. Frist
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (45)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (9)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel CoatsDid not vote
- Tim HutchinsonDid not vote
- James M. JeffordsDid not vote
- Mary L. LandrieuDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Gordon Harold SmithDid not vote
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