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Senate Roll Call 559, 108th Congress · May 19, 2004

To express the sense of the Senate regarding legislation to impose an excise tax on tobacco lawyer's fees that exceed $20,000 per hour in order to increase funding for equipment for the United States Armed Forces.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

37 yea · 62 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 46 nay
Republican36 yea · 14 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2400 ↗

Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Expressing a sense of the Senate is a non-binding resolution.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (37)

Nay (62)

Not voting or present (1)

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