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Senate Roll Call 294, 103rd Congress · September 29, 1993

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to prohibit the payment of benefits to individuals confined to public institutions pursuant to court order based on a verdict that the individual is not guilty of a criminal offense by reason of insanity or similar finding. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE HELMS AMENDMENT NO. 976, TO PROHIBIT THE PAYMENT OF BENEFITS TO INDIVIDUALS CONFINED TO PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS PURSUANT TO COURT ORDER BASED ON A VERDICT THAT THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOT GUILTY OF A CRIMINAL OFFENSE BY REASON OF INSANITY OR SIMILAR FINDING.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

94 yea · 4 nayAmendment Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 3 nay
Republican43 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2518 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994

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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Prohibiting benefit payments to institutionalized individuals reduces social security 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 (94)

Nay (4)

Not voting or present (2)

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