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Senate Roll Call 217, 106th Congress · July 22, 1999

To fund a media campaign, from increases in the Department of Justice budget, to prevent underage drinking.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

43 yea · 54 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 6 nay
Republican3 yea · 48 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1217 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

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(0.85): A yes vote authorizes spending for a new media campaign from budget increases.

    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 (43)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (3)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.