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Senate Roll Call 425, 105th Congress · May 12, 1998

A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for the National Science Foundation, and for other purposes. — (SENATE PASSED H.R. 1273, TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEARS 1998 AND 1999 FOR THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. .)

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

99 yea · 0 nayBill Passed1 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 0 nay
Republican52 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1273 ↗

National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1998

Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications — 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(0.95): Authorizing spending for the National Science Foundation increases federal expenditures.

    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 (99)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (1)

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