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Senate Roll Call 225, 105th Congress · September 10, 1997

To establish that nothing in this Act may be construed to interfere with any agreement previously entered into between any State and any private attorney with respect to litigation involving tobacco. — (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE THE WELLSTONE AMENDMENT NO. 1126 TO AMENDMENT NO. 1078, TO ESTABLISH THAT NOTHING IN THIS ACT MAY BE CONSTRUED TO INTERFERE WITH ANY AGREEMENT PREVIOUSLY ENTERED INTO BETWEEN ANY STATE AND ANY PRIVATE ATTORNEY WITH RESPECT TO LITIGATION INVOLVING TOBACCO. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

48 yea · 50 nayMotion to Table Failed2 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 42 nay
Republican45 yea · 7 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 (0.90) The measure concerns state-attorney litigation agreements without direct 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 (48)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (2)

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