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Senate Roll Call 175, 105th Congress · July 15, 1997

To prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to underwrite restructuring costs associated with a business merger. — (SENATE REJECTED THE HARKIN AMENDMENT NO. 848, TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF TAXPAYER FUNDS TO UNDERWRITE RESTRUCTURING COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH A BUSINESS MERGER.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

15 yea · 83 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 32 nay
Republican2 yea · 49 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1005 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Prohibiting federal subsidies for defense contractor merger restructuring costs restrains defense spending.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (15)

Nay (83)

Not voting or present (2)

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