To strike Section 329 from a bill making appropriations for the Department of Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000.

On Sep 9, 1999, the Senate voted 45–52 on “On the Amendment” (HR 2466). Result: Amendment Rejected. By party: Republicans 4–48, Democrats 41–4. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 8 members voted against their own party.

During the 106th Congress (1999–2000), Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Result: Amendment Rejected
Yes: 45
No: 52
Did not vote: 5
Date: Sep 9, 1999

By party

Republicans4 yes · 48 no · 4 didn’t vote
Democrats41 yes · 4 no · 1 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Blanche Lambert Lincoln D-AR voted no
John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
Mary L. Landrieu D-LA voted no
Arlen Specter R-PA voted yes
John Hubbard Chafee R-RI voted yes
John William Warner R-VA voted yes
James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted yes
Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV voted no

How each senator voted: Yes

How each senator voted: No

Theodore Fulton (Ted) Stevens R-AK
Jefferson Beauregard (Jeff) Sessions III R-AL
Richard C. Shelby R-AL
Blanche Lambert Lincoln D-AR
Timothy Hutchinson R-AR
Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
A. Wayne Allard R-CO
Ben Nighthorse Campbell R-CO
Connie Mack III R-FL
Paul Coverdell R-GA
Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
Michael Dean Crapo R-ID
Peter G. Fitzgerald R-IL
Richard Green Lugar R-IN
Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
Sam Dale Brownback R-KS
Addison Mitchell (Mitch) Mcconnell R-KY
James Paul David Bunning R-KY
John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
Mary L. Landrieu D-LA
Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
Susan Margaret Collins R-ME
Spencer Abraham R-MI
Rod Grams R-MN
Christopher Samuel (Kit) Bond R-MO
John David Ashcroft R-MO
Chester Trent Lott R-MS
William Thad Cochran R-MS
Conrad Burns R-MT
Jesse Helms R-NC
Charles Timothy (Chuck) Hagel R-NE
Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
Robert C. Smith R-NH
Pete Vichi Domenici R-NM
George Victor Voinovich R-OH
Michael Dewine R-OH
Donald Lee Nickles R-OK
James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
Gordon Harold Smith R-OR
Richard John (Rick) Santorum R-PA
James Strom Thurmond R-SC
Fred Dalton Thompson R-TN
William H. Frist R-TN
Kathryn Ann Bailey (Kay) Hutchison R-TX
William Philip (Phil) Gramm R-TX
Orrin Grant Hatch R-UT
Robert Foster (Bob) Bennett R-UT
Thomas Slade Gorton III (Slade) R-WA
Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Craig Lyle Thomas R-WY
Michael B. Enzi R-WY

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To strike Section 329 from a bill making…: Senate Vote, Sep 9, 1999,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/106-S-266/to-strike-section-329-from-a-bill-making-appropriations (accessed 2026-10-17).