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Senate Roll Call 244, 105th Congress · September 17, 1997

To decrease funding for the NEA. — (SENATE REJECTED ABRAHAM AMENDMENT NO. 1206 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 96, LINE 12 THROUGH PAGE 97, LINE 8, TO REDUCE FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS, AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CONSTRUCTION FUNDS FOR THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

26 yea · 73 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 45 nay
Republican26 yea · 26 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2107 ↗

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): Decreasing funding for the NEA reduces 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 (26)

Nay (73)

Not voting or present (1)

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