A bill making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

On Sep 9, 1999, the Senate voted 49–49 on “On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed” (HR 2084). Result: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejecte. By party: Republicans 49–4, Democrats 0–45. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 4 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: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejecte
Yes: 49
No: 49
Did not vote: 4
Date: Sep 9, 1999

By party

Republicans49 yes · 4 no · 3 didn’t vote
Democrats0 yes · 45 no · 1 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Michael Dean Crapo R-ID voted no
George Victor Voinovich R-OH voted no
John Hubbard Chafee R-RI voted no
John William Warner R-VA voted no

The bill

H.R. 2084: Making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

How each senator voted: Yes

Theodore Fulton (Ted) Stevens R-AK
Jefferson Beauregard (Jeff) Sessions III R-AL
Richard C. Shelby R-AL
Timothy Hutchinson R-AR
Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
A. Wayne Allard R-CO
Ben Nighthorse Campbell R-CO
William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
Connie Mack III R-FL
Paul Coverdell R-GA
Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
Larry Edwin Craig 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
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
Michael Dewine R-OH
Donald Lee Nickles R-OK
James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
Gordon Harold Smith R-OR
Arlen Specter R-PA
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
James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
Thomas Slade Gorton III (Slade) R-WA
Craig Lyle Thomas R-WY
Michael B. Enzi R-WY

How each senator voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “A bill making appropriations for the…: Senate Vote, Sep 9, 1999,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/106-S-264/a-bill-making-appropriations-for-the-department-of-transportation (accessed 2026-10-17).