Senate Roll Call 559, 105th Congress · September 8, 1998
To earmark funds for the acquisition and preservation of Civil War battlefields. — (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE THE JEFFORDS AMENDMENT NO. 3541, TO EARMARK FUNDS FOR THE ACQUISITION AND PRESERVATION OF CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of the Interior 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 restraint”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment to earmark funds for battlefield acquisition prevents additional spending.
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 (0)
None
Nay (83)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Tim Hutchinson
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Robert Torricelli
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (17)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Dianne FeinsteinDid not vote
- Rod GramsDid not vote
- Judd A. GreggDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
- Dirk KempthorneDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Mary L. LandrieuDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Carol Moseley BraunDid not vote
- Patty MurrayDid not vote
- Richard J. SantorumDid not vote
- Ron WydenDid not vote
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