Senate Roll Call 544, 105th Congress · July 30, 1998

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) to provide for appointment and term length for the staff director and general counsel of the Federal Election Commission, and for other purposes. — (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE THE MCCONNELL AMENDMENT NO. 3379, TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT AND TERM LENGTH FOR THE STAFF DIRECTOR AND GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

45 yea · 54 nayMotion to Table Failed1 not voting or present

Democrat44 yea · 1 nay

Republican0 yea · 52 nay

Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2312 ↗

Treasury and General Government 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 (0.95) FEC governance and staffing terms do not move along a fiscal spending axis.
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 (45)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (1)

Jesse HelmsDid not vote

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