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Senate Vote 139 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion SCONRES57: To create a 60 vote point of order against legislation diverting savings achieved through medicare waste, fraud and abuse enforcement activities for purposes other than improving the solvency of the Medicare Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.Motion Rejected44-56
Senate Vote 138 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Senate that all Federal spending and revenues which are indexed for inflation should be calibrated by the most accurate inflation indices which are available to the Federal government.Amendment Agreed to100-0
Senate Vote 137 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Congress regarding reimbursement of the United States for the costs of Operations Southern Watch and Provide Comfort.Amendment Agreed to53-47
Senate Vote 136 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: This amendment increases overall discretionary spending to the levels proposed by the President. This amendment is fully offset by the extenstion of expired tax provisions or corporate and business tax reforms.Motion to Table Agreed to61-39
Senate Vote 135 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To reform the Davis-Bacon Act.Amendment Agreed to99-0
Senate Vote 134 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: To protect the incomes of construction workers and their families and to express the sense of the Senate that the Davis-Bacon Act should not be repealed.Motion to Table Failed41-59
Senate Vote 133 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Congress that States should be allowed to require welfare recipients to stay drug-free as a condition for receiving welfare benefits from the taxpayers.Amendment Agreed to92-8
Senate Vote 132 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Congress that provisions of current medicaid law families of nursing home residents from experiencing financial ruin as the price of needed care for their loved ones should be retained.Amendment Agreed to94-6
Senate Vote 131 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Congress that the reconciliation bill should not include any changes in Federal nursing home quality standards or the Federal enforcement of such standards.Amendment Agreed to99-0
Senate Vote 130 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Congress that the reconciliation bill should maintain the existing prohibition against additional charges by providers under the medicare program.Motion to Table Failed49-51
Senate Vote 129 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To adopt the President's budget for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program through fiscal year 2000 and freeze funding for the program thereafter.Amendment Rejected26-74
Senate Vote 128 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Senate regarding a supermajority requirement for raising taxes.Motion to Table Agreed to59-41
Senate Vote 127 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Senate with respect to maintaining current expenditure levels for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for FY 1997.Amendment Agreed to88-12
Senate Vote 126 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: To increase the Function 500 totals to maintain levels of education and training funding that will keep pace with rising school enrollments and the demand for a better-trained workforce.Motion to Table Agreed to52-48
Senate Vote 125 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: To help protect the quality of our water and air, to clean up toxic waste, to protect our national parks and other natural resources, and so forth and for other purposes.Motion to Table Agreed to55-45
Senate Vote 124 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To prevent Congress from enacting legislation that increases the number of children who are hungry or homeless.Amendment Agreed to100-0
Senate Vote 123 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: To ensure that funds are provided for the hiring of new police under the Community Oriented Policing Service in FY 1997.Motion to Table Agreed to51-49
Senate Vote 122 (1996)1996-05-22On the Amendment SCONRES57: To increase funding for the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund programs in 2001 and 2002 with offsetting reductions and to express the sense of the Senate regarding administrative funding of the President's Public Safety and Community Policing Grants.Amendment Agreed to52-48
Senate Vote 121 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Senate on tax deductibility of higher education tuition and student loan interest costs.Motion to Table Agreed to56-44
Senate Vote 120 (1996)1996-05-22On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: To preserve, protect, and strengthen the medicaid program by controlling costs, providing State flexibility, and restoring critical standards and protections, including coverage for all populations covered under current law.Motion to Table Agreed to55-45
Senate Vote 119 (1996)1996-05-16On the Amendment SCONRES57: Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.Amendment Rejected45-53
Senate Vote 118 (1996)1996-05-16On the Amendment SCONRES57: To express the sense of the Congress regarding medicare trust fund solvency.Amendment Rejected53-45
Senate Vote 117 (1996)1996-05-16On the Motion to Table SCONRES57: To restore $50 billion in excessive Medicare cuts designed to pay for new tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, offset by the extension of expired tax provisions or corporate and business tax reforms; to protect seniors against unjustified increases in premiums and other out-of-pocket costs; to prevent the closing of rural hospitals and other excessive provider cuts that erode access to needed medical services; to prevent the implementation of policies designed to force seniors to give up their own doctors to join private health plans; and to protect Medicare against policies that will cause it to wither on the vine.Motion to Table Agreed to55-43
Senate Vote 116 (1996)1996-05-16On the Amendment SCONRES57: To restore funds to the Veteran's Administration Medical Care program, offset by a reduction in welfare benefits.Amendment Agreed to75-23
Senate Vote 115 (1996)1996-05-16On the Amendment SCONRES57: To cut corporate welfare to fund Veteran benefits.Amendment Rejected45-53
Senate Vote 114 (1996)1996-05-16On the Amendment SJRES21: To amend the motion to recommit to change instructions to report back with limits on congressional terms of 6 years in the House of Representatives and 12 years in the Senate.Amendment Agreed to99-0
Senate Vote 113 (1996)1996-05-15On the Amendment SCONRES57: To reduce defense spending.Amendment Rejected42-57
Senate Vote 112 (1996)1996-05-14On the Cloture Motion HR2937: To provide for the repeal of the 4.3 cent increase in fuel tax rates enacted by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.Cloture Motion Rejected54-43
Senate Vote 111 (1996)1996-05-09On the Cloture Motion HR2937: To provide for the repeal of the 4.3 cent increase in fuel tax rates enacted by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, to clarify that an employer may establish and participate in worker-management cooperative organizations to address matters of mutual interest to employers and employees, and to provide for an increase in the minimum wage rate.Cloture Motion Rejected52-44
Senate Vote 110 (1996)1996-05-08On the Cloture Motion HR2937: A bill for the reimbursement of legal expenses and related fees incurred by former employees of the White House Travel Office with respect to the termination of their employment in that Office on May 19, 1993.Cloture Motion Rejected53-45
Senate Vote 109 (1996)1996-05-07On the Cloture Motion HR2937: A bill for the reimbursement of legal expenses and related fees incurred by former employees of the White House Travel Office with respect to the termination of their employment in that Office on May 19, 1993.Cloture Motion Rejected52-44
Senate Vote 108 (1996)1996-05-02On Passage of the Bill HR2202: A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve deterrence of illegal immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel, by increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, by reforming exclusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving the verification system for eligibility for employment, and through other measures, to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate legal entries into the United States, and for other purposes.Bill Passed97-3
Senate Vote 107 (1996)1996-05-02On the Cloture Motion S1664: An original bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase control over immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel and detention facilities, improving the system used by employers to verify citizenship or work-authorized alien status, increasing penalties for alien smuggling and document fraud, and reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and procedures; to reduce the use of welfare by aliens; and for other purposes.Cloture Motion Agreed to100-0
Senate Vote 106 (1996)1996-05-02On the Amendment S1664: To provide that the emergency benefits available to illegal immigrants also are made available to legal immigrants as execptions to the deeming requirements.Amendment Rejected40-60
Senate Vote 105 (1996)1996-05-02On the Amendment S1664: To suspend the requirements imposed on State and local governments if certain conditions prevail.Amendment Rejected30-70
Senate Vote 104 (1996)1996-05-01On the Amendment S1664: To limit the deeming provisions for purposes of determining eligiblity of legal aliens for Medicaid, and for other purposes.Amendment Rejected22-77
Senate Vote 103 (1996)1996-05-01On the Amendment S1664: To prevent retroactive deeming of sponsor income.Amendment Rejected36-63
Senate Vote 102 (1996)1996-05-01On the Amendment S1664: To exempt from deeming requirements immigrants who are disabled after entering the United States.Amendment Rejected30-69
Senate Vote 101 (1996)1996-05-01On the Motion to Table S1664: To strike provisions providing for the implementation of a national identification system and those provisions requiring State driver's licenses and birth certificates to conform to new Federal regulations and standards.Motion to Table Agreed to54-46
Senate Vote 100 (1996)1996-05-01On the Amendment S1664: To provide a minimum safeguards in expedited exclusion procedure to prevent returning bona fide refugees to their persecutors.Amendment Agreed to51-49
Senate Vote 99 (1996)1996-05-01On the Amendment S1664: To establish an Office for the Enforcement of Employer Sanctions.Amendment Rejected26-74
Senate Vote 98 (1996)1996-04-30On the Amendment S1664: To strike the provision relating to the language of deportation notice.Amendment Rejected42-57
Senate Vote 97 (1996)1996-04-30On the Amendment S1664: To adjust the definition of public charge.Amendment Rejected36-63
Senate Vote 96 (1996)1996-04-30On the Amendment S1664: To enable employers to determine work eligibility of prospective employees without fear of being used.Amendment Rejected32-67
Senate Vote 95 (1996)1996-04-30On the Amendment S1664: To exempt children, veterans, and pregnant mothers from the sponsor deeming requirements under the medicaid program.Amendment Rejected47-52
Senate Vote 94 (1996)1996-04-30On the Amendment S1664: To provide exceptions to the sponsor deeming requirements for legal immigrants for programs for which illegal aliens are eligible, and for other purposes.Amendment Rejected46-53
Senate Vote 93 (1996)1996-04-30On the Resolution SRES253: A resolution urging the detention and extradition to the United States by the appropriate foreign government of Mohammed Abbas for the murder of Leon Klinghoffer.Resolution Agreed to99-0
Senate Vote 92 (1996)1996-04-30On the Amendment S1664: To clarify and enumerate public assistance programs with respect to which the deeming provisions apply.Amendment Rejected36-63
Senate Vote 91 (1996)1996-04-30On the Amendment S1664: To condition the repeal of the Cuban Adjustment Act on a democratically elected government in Cuba being in power.Amendment Agreed to62-37
Senate Vote 90 (1996)1996-04-29On the Cloture Motion S1664: In the nature of a substitute.Cloture Motion Agreed to91-0
Senate Vote 89 (1996)1996-04-25On the Conference Report HR3019: A bill making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a further downpayment toward a balanced budget, and for other purposes.Conference Report Agreed to88-11
Senate Vote 88 (1996)1996-04-25On the Motion to Table S1664: To create new ground of exclusion and of deportation for falsely claiming U.S. citizenship.Motion to Table Agreed to53-46
Senate Vote 87 (1996)1996-04-25On the Motion to Table S1664: To establish a pilot program to collect information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students.Motion to Table Agreed to53-47
Senate Vote 86 (1996)1996-04-25On the Motion to Table S1664: To prohibit foreign students on F-1 visas from obtaining free public elementary or secondary education.Motion to Table Agreed to53-46
Senate Vote 85 (1996)1996-04-25On the Motion to Table S1664: An original bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase control over immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel and detention facilities, improving the system used by employers to verify citizenship or work-authorized alien status, increasing penalties for alien smuggling and document fraud, and reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation law and procedures; to reduce the use of welfare by aliens; and for other purposes.Motion to Table Agreed to53-47
Senate Vote 84 (1996)1996-04-25On the Motion to Table S1664: To limit and improve the system for the admission of family-sponsored immigrants.Motion to Table Agreed to74-26
Senate Vote 83 (1996)1996-04-25On the Amendment S1664: To provide for temporary numerical limits on family-sponsored immigrant visas, a temporary priority-based system of allocating family-sponsored immigrant visas, and a temporary per-country limit--to apply for the five fiscal years after enactment of S. 1664.Amendment Rejected20-80
Senate Vote 82 (1996)1996-04-24On the Motion to Table S1664: To express the sense of the Senate that a balanced budget constitutional amendment should protect the social security system by excluding the receipts and outlays of the social security trust funds from the budget.Motion to Table Agreed to56-42
Senate Vote 81 (1996)1996-04-24On the Amendment S1664: In the nature of a substitute.Amendment Agreed to92-6
Senate Vote 80 (1996)1996-04-24On the Amendment S1664: To repeal the ban on the search of open-fields by employees of the INS when they have probable cause to believe an illegal act has occurred.Amendment Rejected20-79
Senate Vote 79 (1996)1996-04-23On the Cloture Motion SJRES21: A joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms.Cloture Motion Rejected58-42
Senate Vote 78 (1996)1996-04-23On Passage of the Bill HR3103: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes.Bill Passed100-0
Senate Vote 77 (1996)1996-04-18On the Motion to Table S1028: To encourage the provision of medical services in medically underserved communities by extending Federal liability coverage to medical volunteers.Motion to Table Failed47-51
Senate Vote 76 (1996)1996-04-18On the Motion to Table S1028: To reduce health care fraud, waste, and abuse.Motion to Table Agreed to62-36
Senate Vote 75 (1996)1996-04-18On the Motion to Table S1028: To ensure that parity is provided under health plans for severe mental illness services.Motion to Table Failed33-65
Senate Vote 74 (1996)1996-04-18On the Motion to Table S1028: To establish a minimum amount that may be applied as an aggregate lifetime limit with respect to coverage under an employee health benefit plan or a group health plan.Motion to Table Agreed to56-42
Senate Vote 73 (1996)1996-04-18On the Amendment S1028: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve health and long-term care coverage in the group and individual markets by making health and long-term care insurance more accessible and affordable.Amendment Agreed to98-0
Senate Vote 72 (1996)1996-04-18On the Amendment S1028: To strike medical savings savings accounts.Amendment Agreed to52-46
Senate Vote 71 (1996)1996-04-17On the Conference Report S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Conference Report Agreed to91-8
Senate Vote 70 (1996)1996-04-17On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Motion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to53-46
Senate Vote 69 (1996)1996-04-17On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Motion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to56-43
Senate Vote 68 (1996)1996-04-17On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Motion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to56-43
Senate Vote 67 (1996)1996-04-17On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Motion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to51-48
Senate Vote 66 (1996)1996-04-17On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Motion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to64-35
Senate Vote 65 (1996)1996-04-17On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Motion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to58-40
Senate Vote 64 (1996)1996-04-17On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Motion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to53-46
Senate Vote 63 (1996)1996-04-17On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Motion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to61-38
Senate Vote 62 (1996)1996-04-16On the Motion to Table the Motion to Recommit S735: A bill to prevent and punish acts of terrorism, and for other purposes.Motion to Table Motion to Recommit Agreed to50-46
Senate Vote 61 (1996)1996-04-16On the Cloture Motion SRES227: An original resolution to authorize the use of additional funds for salaries and expenses of the Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters, and for other purposes.Cloture Motion Rejected51-46
Senate Vote 60 (1996)1996-03-29On the Joint Resolution HJRES170: A joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes.Joint Resolution Passed64-24
Senate Vote 59 (1996)1996-03-28On the Conference Report HR1561: A bill to consolidate the foreign affairs agencies of the United States; to authorize appropriations for the Department of State and related agencies for fiscal years 1996 and 1997; to responsibly reduce the authorizations of appropriations for United States foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 and 1997, and for other purposes.Conference Report Agreed to52-44
Senate Vote 58 (1996)1996-03-28On the Cloture Motion HR1296: To provide for an increase in the minimum wage rate.Cloture Motion Rejected55-45
Senate Vote 57 (1996)1996-03-28On the Conference Report HR2854: A bill to modify the operation of certain agricultural programs.Conference Report Agreed to74-26
Senate Vote 56 (1996)1996-03-27On the Conference Report S4: An act to give the President line item veto authority with respect to appropriations, new direct spending, and limited tax benefits.Conference Report Agreed to69-31
Senate Vote 55 (1996)1996-03-27On the Motion to Table S4: An act to give the President line item veto authority with respect to appropriations, new direct spending, and limited tax benefits.Motion to Table Agreed to58-42
Senate Vote 54 (1996)1996-03-27On the Cloture Motion HR1296: To offer an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 1296, a bill to provide for the administration of certain Presidio properties at minimal cost to the Federal taxpayer, and for other purposes.Cloture Motion Rejected51-49
Senate Vote 53 (1996)1996-03-26On the Motion HR1296: A bill to provide for the Administration of certain Presidio properties at minimal cost to the Federal taxpayer.Motion Agreed to50-43
Senate Vote 52 (1996)1996-03-26On the Motion to Table HR1296: To provide for an increase in the minimum wage rate.Motion to Table Failed0-97
Senate Vote 51 (1996)1996-03-21On the Concurrent Resolution HCONRES148: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding missile tests and military exercises by the People's Republic of China.Concurrent Resolution Agreed to97-0
Senate Vote 50 (1996)1996-03-21On Passage of the Bill S1459: An original bill to provide for uniform management of livestock grazing on Federal land, and for other purposes.Bill Passed51-46
Senate Vote 49 (1996)1996-03-21On the Motion to Table S1459: An amendment in the nature of a substitute to the Domenici substitute to S.1459, the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1995.Motion to Table Agreed to57-40
Senate Vote 48 (1996)1996-03-21On the Motion to Table S1459: To increase the fee charged for grazing on Federal land.Motion to Table Agreed to52-47
Senate Vote 47 (1996)1996-03-21On the Cloture Motion SRES227: An original resolution to authorize the use of additional funds for salaries and expenses of the Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters, and for other purposes.Cloture Motion Rejected52-46
Senate Vote 46 (1996)1996-03-21On the Conference Report HR956: A bill to establish legal standards and procedures for product liability litigation, and for other purposes.Conference Report Agreed to59-40
Senate Vote 45 (1996)1996-03-20On the Cloture Motion SRES227: An original resolution to authorize the use of additional funds for salaries and expenses of the Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters, and for other purposes.Cloture Motion Rejected53-47
Senate Vote 44 (1996)1996-03-20On the Cloture Motion HR956: A bill to establish legal standards and procedures for product liability litigation, and for other purposes.Cloture Motion Agreed to60-40
Senate Vote 43 (1996)1996-03-19On Passage of the Bill S942: A bill to promote increased understanding of Federal regulations and increased voluntary compliance with such regulations by small entities, to provide for the designation of regional ombudsmen and oversight boards to monitor the enforcement practices of certain Federal agencies with respect to small business concerns, to provide relief from excessive and arbitrary regulatory enforcement actions against small entities, and for other purposes.Bill Passed100-0
Senate Vote 42 (1996)1996-03-19On Passage of the Bill HR3019: A bill making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a further downpayment toward a balanced budget, and for other purposes.Bill Passed79-21
Senate Vote 41 (1996)1996-03-19On the Amendment HR3019: To urge the President to release already-appropriated fiscal year 1996 emergency funding for home heating and other energy assistance, and to express the sense of the Senate on advance-appropriated funding for FY 1997.Amendment Agreed to77-23
Senate Vote 40 (1996)1996-03-19On the Amendment HR3019: To make the availablity of obligations and expenditures contingent upon the enactment of a subsequent act incorporating an agreement between the President and Congress relative to Federal expenditures.Amendment Rejected33-67

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