Senate Roll Call 239, 105th Congress · September 16, 1997
A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to improve the regulation of food, drugs, devices, and biological products, and for other purposes. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE AGREED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON AMENDMENT NO. 1130. .)
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997
Policy area: Health — 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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) FDA regulatory reform does not directly expand or restrict health care coverage.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (94)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Robert Torricelli
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (2)
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Alfonse Marcello D’AmatoDid not vote
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