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Senate Roll Call 217, 105th Congress · September 4, 1997

Of a perfecting nature. — (ENATE TABLED THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 1082 TO AMENDMENT NO. 1081, OF A PERFECTING NATURE. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

56 yea · 42 nayMotion to Table Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat3 yea · 41 nay
Republican52 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1061 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, 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 (0.95) The text describes the measure as 'of a perfecting nature', which is too vague.

    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 (56)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (2)

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