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Peter G. Fitzgerald on Spending & Budget

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Spending & Budget419 votes · 82.2/100 consistent
Fiscal expansionFiscal restraint

640 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Spending & Budget. 419 of them counted toward the score above: 200 toward “Fiscal expansion” and 219 toward “Fiscal restraint”.

The other 221 did not count: 212 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 9 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

DateWhat was voted onVotedCounted as
1999-05-20A bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.H.R. 1141 · 106th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
1999-04-30In the nature of a substitute.S. 557 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaDirection not readable
1999-04-22To preserve and protect the surpluses of the social security trust funds by reaffirming the exclusion of receipts and disbursement from the budget, by setting a limit on the debt held by the public, and by amending the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide a process to reduce the limit on the debt held by the public.S. 557 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaFiscal restraint
1999-04-15A concurrent resolution establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2000 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2009.H.Con.Res. 68 · 106th Congress · On the Conference ReportYeaDirection not readable
1999-04-13A concurrent resolution establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2000 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2009.H.Con.Res. 68 · 106th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
1999-04-13A concurrent resolution establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2000 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2009.H.Con.Res. 68 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
1999-04-13A concurrent resolution establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2000 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2009.H.Con.Res. 68 · 106th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
1999-04-13A concurrent resolution establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2000 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2009.H.Con.Res. 68 · 106th Congress · On the MotionYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-25A concurrent resolution establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2000 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2009.H.Con.Res. 68 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the BillYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-25To provide for a 1-year delay in a portion of certain tax provisions necessary to avoid future budget deficits.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal expansion
1999-03-25To create a reserve fund for medicare prescription drug benefits.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
1999-03-25To continue Federal spending at the current services baseline levels and pay down the Federal debt.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentNayFiscal expansion
1999-03-25To express the sense of the Senate concerning an increase in the minimum wage.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
1999-03-25To allow increased tobacco tax revenues to be used as an offset for the Medicare prescription drug benefit provided for in section 209.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
1999-03-25To provide $36,000,000,000 in additional agricultural funding.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
1999-03-25To increase the mandatory spending in the Child Care and Development Block Grant by $7.5 billion over five years, the amendment reduces the resolution's tax cut and leaves adequate room in the revenue instructions for targeted tax cuts that help families with the costs of caring for their children, and that such relief would assist all working families with employment related child care expenses, as well as families in which one paren stays home to care for an infant.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
1999-03-25To create a reserve fund to lock in additional non-Social Security surplus in the outyears for tax relief and/or debt reduction.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the MotionYeaFiscal restraint
1999-03-25To fully fund the Class Size Initiative and the Individuals with Disabilities Act with mandatory funds, the amendment reduces the resolution's tax cut by one fifth, frees up $43 billion in discretionary spending within Function 500 (in 2001-2009) for other important education programs, and leaves adequate room in the revenue reconciliation instructions for targeted tax cuts that help those in need and tax breaks for communities to modernize and rebuild crumbling schools.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
1999-03-25To use on-budget surplus to repay the Debt instead of tax cuts.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal expansion
1999-03-25To modify the pay-as-you-go requirement of the budget process to require that direct spending increases be offset only with direct spending decreases.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the MotionYeaFiscal restraint
1999-03-25To provide for certain Federal revenues, total new budget authority, and total budget outlays.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the MotionNayDirection not readable
1999-03-25Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding reauthorization of the Farmland Protection Program.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-25To reduce tax breaks for the wealthiest taxpayers and reserve the savings for Medicare.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
1999-03-25To express the sense of the Senate regarding the modernization and improvement of the medicare program.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-25To provide for funding of biomedical research.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal restraint
1999-03-24To increase funding in FY 2000 for veterans' health care by taking an across-the-board cut in all discretionary programs, except veterans and defense.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-24To propose the President's budget.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
1999-03-24To ensure that Congress saves Social Security and strengthens Medicare before using projected budget surpluses for new spending or tax breaks.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal expansion
1999-03-24To express the sense of the Senate that the Federal Government should not directly invest the social security trust funds in private financial markets.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-24To ensure that Congress saves Social Security and strengthens Medicare before using projected budget surpluses for new spending or tax breaks.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the MotionNayFiscal expansion
1999-03-24Providing a framework for the protection of Social Security Surpluses for current and future beneficiaries.S.Con.Res. 20 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-23To maintain existing marine activities in Glacier Bay National Park.S. 544 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableNayDirection not readable
1999-03-23Prohibiting the use of funds for military operations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) unless Congress enacts specific authorization in law for the conduct of those operations.S. 544 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-18To require prior congressional approval before the United States supports the admission of the People's Republic of China into the World Trade Organization.S. 544 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-18To permit the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive recoupment of Federal government medicaid claims to tobacco-related State settlements if a State uses a portion of those funds for programs to reduce the use of tobacco products,to improve public health, and to assist in the economic diversification of tobacco farming communities.S. 544 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableYeaFiscal restraint
1999-03-11To provide all local educational agencies with the option to use the funds received under section 307 of the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1999, for activities under part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act with respect to alternative educational settings.S. 280 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-11To provide all local educational agencies with the option to use the funds received under section 307 of the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1999, for activities under part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.S. 280 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-11To express the sense of the Senate regarding flexibility to use certain Federal education funds to carry out part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, adn to provide all local educational agencies with the option to use the funds received under section 307 of the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1999, for activities under part B of the Individuals with Disabilitiesn Education Act.S. 280 · 106th Congress · On the AmendmentYeaDirection not readable
1999-03-11To express the sense of the Senate regarding flexibility to use certain Federal education funds to carry out part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, adn to provide all local educational agencies with the option to use the funds received under section 307 of the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1999, for activities under part B of the Individuals with Disabilitiesn Education Act.S. 280 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to TableNayDirection not readable
1999-03-10To authorize additional appropriations to carry out part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.S. 280 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture MotionYeaFiscal expansion

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Fiscal expansion / Fiscal restraint axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.