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Senate Roll Call 197, 105th Congress · July 23, 1997

To impose an assessment on ethanol manufacturers. — (SENATE TABLED HELMS MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 969 TO AMENDMENT NO. 968, TO IMPOSE AN ASSESSMENT ON ETHANOL MANUFACTURERS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

76 yea · 24 nayMotion to Table Agreed to
Democrat43 yea · 2 nay
Republican31 yea · 22 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1033

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 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 (0.60) Imposing an assessment on manufacturers is an industry fee, not a clear fiscal expansion or restraint.

    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 (76)

Nay (24)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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