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Senate Roll Call 221, 105th Congress · September 8, 1997

To provide funding for grants to States for State Student Incentives under subpart 4 of part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE REED AMENDMENT NO. 1096, TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR STATE STUDENT INCENTIVE GRANTS. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

84 yea · 4 nayAmendment Agreed to12 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 0 nay
Republican43 yea · 4 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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.

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Funding federal higher education grant programs expands the federal role in education.

    Tagged by: keyword:higher education act

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Providing funding for student incentive grants increases federal spending.

    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 (84)

Nay (4)

Not voting or present (12)

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