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Senate Roll Call 368, 105th Congress · April 2, 1998

To increase the Federal investment in biomedical research should be increased by $2,000,000,000 in fiscal year 1999. — (SENATE TABLED SPECTER MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 2254, TO INCREASE THE FEDERAL INVESTMENT IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

57 yea · 41 nayMotion to Table Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 32 nay
Republican45 yea · 7 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 86 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 and revising the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 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): Tabling an amendment to increase biomedical research spending by $2 billion prevents fiscal expansion.

    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 (57)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (2)

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