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Senate Roll Call 80, 103rd Congress · March 25, 1993

To implement the proposal in President Clinton's book "Putting People First" that the line item veto is vital to "eliminating pork barrel projects and cut government waste" and that his administration "will ask Congress to give the President the line item veto". — (SENATE TABLED THE BOND/NICKLES AMENDMENT NO. 253, RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LINE ITEM VETO.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

57 yea · 42 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat52 yea · 2 nay
Republican3 yea · 40 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 18 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998.

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): Tabling a line item veto proposal blocks a fiscal restraint mechanism to cut 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 (57)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (1)

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