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Senate Roll Call 260, 105th Congress · September 30, 1997

To provide scholarship assistance for District of Columbia elementary and secondary school students. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE FAILED TO AGREE TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON COATS MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 1249. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

58 yea · 41 nayCloture Motion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 40 nay
Republican52 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1156 ↗

District of Columbia 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 expansion”

    model(0.85): Advancing an amendment providing scholarship assistance increases federal outlays.

    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 (58)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (1)

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