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Senate Roll Call 249, 105th Congress · September 18, 1997

To ensure that Federal taxpayers receive a fair return for the extraction of locatable minerals on public domain land and that abandoned mines are reclaimed. — (SENATE RULED BUMPERS/GREGG AMENDMENT NO. 1224 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 123, LINE 9 THROUGH PAGE 124, LINE 20, TO ENSURE THAT FEDERAL TAXPAYERS RECEIVE A FAIR RETURN FOR THE EXTRACTION OF LOCATABLE MINERALS ON PUBLIC DOMAIN LAND AND THAT ABANDONED MINES ARE RECLAIMED, AS BEING IN VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 1, SECTION 7 OF THE CONSTITUTION, AND NOT IN ORDER. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Point of Order

59 yea · 39 nayPoint of Order Sustained2 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 31 nay
Republican47 yea · 6 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A vote on a constitutional point of order is procedural.

    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 (59)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (2)

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