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Senate Roll Call 506, 105th Congress · July 16, 1998

To provide for the conduct of anti-tobacco activities by the Food and Drug Administration. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF HARKIN/REED AMENDMENT NO. 3193, TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO CONDUCT ANTI-TOBACCO ACTIVITIES BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

49 yea · 50 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 4 nay
Republican8 yea · 45 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Waiving the Budget Act enables consideration of additional federal funding for FDA activities.

    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 (49)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (1)

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