Roll Call Vote #254 · 105th Congress · Session 1 · Sep 23, 1997, 2:58 PM (ET)
On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 1177 to S.Amdt. 1130 to S. 830 (Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997)
Amendment S.Amdt. 1177 (To ensure that determinations of the Secretary with respect to the intended uses of a device are based on the proposed labeling only if such labeling is not false or misleading.)
Motion to Table Agreed to (65-35)
65 Yea
35 Nay
How the Parties Voted
Republican 50 senators
50 Yea / 0 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Democrat 41 senators
8 Yea / 33 Nay
Majority position: Nay
Independent 1 senator
1 Yea / 0 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Independent Democrat 1 senator
1 Yea / 0 Nay
Majority position: Yea
Crossed Party Lines
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John Breaux (Democrat–LA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Christopher Dodd (Democrat–CT) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Wendell Ford (Democrat–KY) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Fritz Hollings (Democrat–SC) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
James Jeffords (Independent–VT) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Mary Landrieu (Democrat–LA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Barbara Mikulski (Democrat–MD) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Arlen Specter (Democrat–PA) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay -
Paul Wellstone (Democrat–MN) voted Yea while most of their caucus voted Nay
Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted
Yea 65
- Spencer Abraham (MI)
- A. Allard (CO)
- John Ashcroft (MO)
- Bob Bennett (UT)
- Kit Bond (MO)
- John Breaux (LA)
- Sam Brownback (KS)
- Conrad Burns (MT)
- Ben Campbell (CO)
- John Chafee (RI)
- Daniel Coats (IN)
- William Cochran (MS)
- Susan Collins
- Paul Coverdell (GA)
- Larry Craig (ID)
- Alfonse D'Amato (NY)
- Michael DeWine (OH)
- Christopher Dodd (CT)
- Pete Domenici (NM)
- Michael Enzi (WY)
- Lauch Faircloth (NC)
- Wendell Ford (KY)
- William Frist (TN)
- Slade Gorton, III (WA)
- Phil Gramm (TX)
- Rod Grams (MN)
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd Gregg (NH)
- Chuck Hagel (NE)
- Orrin Hatch (UT)
- Jesse Helms (NC)
- Fritz Hollings (SC)
- Timothy Hutchinson (AR)
- Kay Hutchison (TX)
- James Inhofe (OK)
- James Jeffords (VT)
- Dirk Kempthorne (ID)
- Jon Kyl (AZ)
- Mary Landrieu (LA)
- Joseph Lieberman (CT)
- Chester Lott (MS)
- Richard Lugar (IN)
- Connie Mack, III (FL)
- John McCain, III (AZ)
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara Mikulski (MD)
- Frank Murkowski (AK)
- Patty Murray
- Donald Nickles (OK)
- Pat Roberts (KS)
- William Roth, Jr. (DE)
- Rick Santorum (PA)
- Jeff Sessions, III (AL)
- Richard Shelby (AL)
- Gordon Smith (OR)
- Robert Smith (NH)
- Olympia Snowe (ME)
- Arlen Specter (PA)
- Ted Stevens (AK)
- Craig Thomas (WY)
- Fred Thompson (TN)
- James Thurmond (SC)
- John Warner (VA)
- Paul Wellstone (MN)
- Ron Wyden
Nay 35
- Daniel Akaka (HI)
- Max Baucus (MT)
- Joe Biden, Jr. (DE)
- Jeff Bingaman, Jr. (NM)
- Barbara Boxer (CA)
- Richard Bryan (NV)
- Dale Bumpers (AR)
- Robert Byrd (WV)
- Max Cleland (GA)
- Kent Conrad (ND)
- Thomas Daschle (SD)
- Byron Dorgan (ND)
- Dick Durbin
- Russell Feingold (WI)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA)
- John Glenn, Jr. (OH)
- Bob Graham (FL)
- Tom Harkin (IA)
- Daniel Inouye (HI)
- Tim Johnson (SD)
- Ted Kennedy (MA)
- J. Kerrey (NE)
- John Kerry (MA)
- Herbert Kohl (WI)
- Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
- Patrick Leahy (VT)
- Carl Levin (MI)
- Carol Moseley Braun (IL)
- Daniel Moynihan (NY)
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid (NV)
- Charles Robb (VA)
- Jay Rockefeller, IV (WV)
- Paul Sarbanes (MD)
- Robert Torricelli (NJ)
Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).