Detail for 2001 Senate Roll Call Vote 233

Vote Date: 12-Jul-2001
Yeas : Nays: 12 : 87

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Taxpayers for Common Sense Action

Eliminate Funds for Vulcan Monument.

When a 50-foot statue of Vulcan God of Fire and Iron in Birmingham, Alabama was looking a little rough around the edges, Alabama turned to the federal government to shell out dollars for restoration. After receiving $1.5 million in the fiscal year 2001 budget for refurbishment, Alabama returned for an additional $2 million in the fiscal 2002 budget.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) offered an amendment stripping this $2 million in funding from the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2002, questioning why federal dollars should pay for a face-lift of a Roman god statue in Alabama.

The Senate rejected the McCain amendment.

Citizens Against Government Waste

H.R. 2217: Fiscal 2002 Interior Appropriations - Vulcan Monument.

The Senate rejected the amendment offered by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to eliminate funds for the Vulcan Monument in Birmingham, Ala.

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