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Senate Roll Call 251, 106th Congress · August 3, 1999

To provide stability in the United States agriculture sector and to promote adequate availability of food and medicine for humanitarian assistance abroad by requiring congressional approval before the imposition of any unilateral agricultural or medical sanctions against a foreign country or foreign entity.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

28 yea · 70 nayMotion to Table Failed2 not voting or present
Democrat9 yea · 35 nay
Republican18 yea · 34 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1233 ↗

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 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 (0.90) Sanctions policy on foreign assistance is not directly aligned with domestic spending expansion or restraint.

    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 (28)

Nay (70)

Not voting or present (2)

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