Senate Roll Call 241, 105th Congress · September 17, 1997
To eliminate funding for programs and activities carried out by the National Endowment for the Arts. — (SENATE REJECTED ASHCROFT AMENDMENT NO. 1188 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 96, LINE 12 THROUGH PAGE 97, LINE 8, TO ELIMINATE FUNDING FOR PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of the Interior 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(0.95): Eliminating funding for an agency cuts 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 (23)
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Daniel Coats
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Charles T. Hagel
- Jesse Helms
- Tim Hutchinson
- James M. Inhofe
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
Nay (77)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Robert Torricelli
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (0)
None
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