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Senate Roll Call 285, 105th Congress · October 29, 1997

An Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to precribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. — (SENATE AGREED TO A MOTION TO TABLE GRAMM MOTION TO POSTPONE THE MOTION TO PROCEED TO CONSIDERATION OF THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 858 UNTIL JANUARY 15, 1998. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

78 yea · 20 nayMotion to Table Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat30 yea · 14 nay
Republican47 yea · 5 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1119 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Tabling a motion to postpone consideration is purely floor procedure.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Tabling a motion to postpone consideration is purely floor procedure.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (78)

Nay (20)

Not voting or present (2)

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