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Senate Roll Call 505, 105th Congress · July 16, 1998

To provide funding for the Food Safety Initiative with an offset. — (SENATE AGREED TO HARKIN AMENDMENT NO. 3175, TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR PROGRAMS OF THE FOOD SAFETY INITIATIVE. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

65 yea · 34 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 4 nay
Republican23 yea · 30 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2159 ↗

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999

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 (0.85) Providing funding with an offset is a net-neutral budget transfer.

    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 (65)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (1)

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