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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 596, 106th Congress · July 20, 2000

To require the use of certain funds transferred to the Economic Research Service to conduct a study of reasons for the decline in participation in the food stamp program and any problems that households with eligible children have experienced in obtaining food stamps.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

90 yea · 6 nayAmendment Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 0 nay
Republican45 yea · 6 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4461

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001

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 (0.80) Mandating a study using existing transferred funds is a net-neutral resource allocation.

    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 (90)

Nay (6)

Not voting or present (3)

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