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Senate Roll Call 186, 105th Congress · July 17, 1997

To allow postal patrons to contribute to funding for breast-cancer research through the voluntary purchase of certain specially issued United States postage stamps. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE FEINSTEIN AMENDMENT NO. 927, TO ALLOW POSTAL PATRONS TO CONTRIBUTE TO FUNDING FOR BREAST-CANCER RESEARCH THROUGH THE VOLUNTARY PURCHASE OF CERTAIN SPECIALLY ISSUED UNITED STATES POSTAGE STAMPS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

83 yea · 17 nayAmendment Agreed to
Democrat39 yea · 6 nay
Republican42 yea · 11 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1023

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1998

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 (0.85) Voluntary semipostal stamp purchases rely on private funds rather than direct fiscal expansion.

    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 (83)

Nay (17)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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