Senate Roll Call 263, 105th Congress · September 30, 1997
To prohibit alcoholic beverage advertisements on billboards, signs, posters, and other forms of advertising in certain publicly visible locations in the District of Columbia where children are likely to walk to school or play. — (SENATE AGREED TO BYRD AMENDMENT NO. 1267, TO PROHIBIT ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ADVERTISEMENTS ON BILLBOARDS, SIGNS, POSTERS, AND OTHER FORMS OF ADVERTISING IN CERTAIN PUBLICLY VISIBLE LOCATIONS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WHERE CHILDREN ARE LIKELY TO WALK TO SCHOOL OR PLAY; BYRD AMENDMENT NO. 1268, TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ABC INSPECTORS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND FOCUS ENFORCEMENT ON SALES TO MINORS; BYRD AMENDMENT NO. 1269, TO REQUIRE THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF THE LOW RATE OF TAXATION ON ALCOHOL IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. .)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Restricting billboard advertising is a policy regulation, not a fiscal spending measure.
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 (69)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Daniel Coats
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Rod Grams
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Jack Reed
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Robert Torricelli
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (27)
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Barbara Boxer
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Larry E. Craig
- Pete V. Domenici
- Russell D. Feingold
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- James M. Inhofe
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Carl Levin
- Connie Mack III
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
Not voting or present (4)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Mary L. LandrieuDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- John McCainPresent
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