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Senate Roll Call 227, 105th Congress · September 10, 1997

To repeal the tobacco industry settlement credit contained in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 as amended. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE DURBIN AMENDMENT NO. 1078, TO REPEAL THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY SETTLEMENT CREDIT CONTAINED IN THE BALANCED BUDGET ACT OF 1997. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

95 yea · 3 nayAmendment Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 0 nay
Republican49 yea · 3 nay
Independent2 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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): Repealing a tax credit eliminates a tax expenditure, representing fiscal 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 (95)

Nay (3)

Not voting or present (2)

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