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Senate Roll Call 204, 102nd Congress · September 24, 1991

To require a 60-vote super majority in the Senate to pass any bill increasing taxes. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE SECTION 306 OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF MCCAIN AMENDMENT NO. 1190 (TO AMENDMENT NO. 1188), TO REQUIRE THREE-FIFTHS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE TO PASS LEGISLATION INCREASING TAXES, AND TO REQUIRE A SIMPLE MAJORITY OF THE SENATE FOR APPROVAL OF LEGISLATION THAT PROVIDES FOR REVENUE REDUCTION.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

37 yea · 62 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 54 nay
Republican36 yea · 6 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1722 ↗

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991

Policy area: Labor and Employment — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Labor & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Supermajority procedural requirements for tax increases do not directly address labor issues.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (37)

Nay (62)

Not voting or present (1)

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