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Senate Roll Call 416, 102nd Congress · July 1, 1992

To propose an amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. to require that the budget of the U.S. be in balance unless three-fifths of the whole of each House of Congress shall provide by law for a specific excess of outlays over receipts and to require that any bill to increase revenues must be approved by a majority of the whole number of each House. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE FAILED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON AMENDMENT NO. 2447, PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRING A BALANCED BUDGET.)

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

56 yea · 39 nayCloture Motion Rejected5 not voting or present
Democrat15 yea · 38 nay
Republican40 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2733 ↗

Federal Housing Enterprises Regulatory Reform Act of 1992

Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector — 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.

  • Financial RegulationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) A constitutional balanced budget amendment concerns fiscal policy, not financial regulation.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Finance and Financial Sector

    Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Cloture advances a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, enforcing fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (56)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (5)

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