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Senate Roll Call 220, 106th Congress · July 22, 1999

To ensure that parties to the tuna convention pay their fair share of the expenses of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission before they are allowed to export tuna to the United States.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

35 yea · 61 nayMotion to Table Failed4 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 41 nay
Republican33 yea · 18 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Regulatory requirement regarding tuna commission expenses does not clearly align with overall fiscal spending policy.

    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 (35)

Nay (61)

Not voting or present (4)

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