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Senate Roll Call 481, 102nd Congress · September 10, 1992

To amend the Social Security Act to increase the earnings test to $50,000 over 5 years. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE SECTION 302(F) OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974 WITH RESPECT TO THE CONSIDERATION OF MCCAIN/SEYMOUR AMENDMENT NO. 2976, TO AMEND THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT TO INCREASE THE EARNINGS TEST TO $50,000 OVER 5 YEARS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

51 yea · 42 nayMotion Agreed to6 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 32 nay
Republican29 yea · 10 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5488 ↗

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1993

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Waiving the Budget Act permits consideration of raising Social Security earnings limits, which increases benefit spending.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (51)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (6)

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