Senate Roll Call 50, 104th Congress · January 26, 1995
To modify the sense-of-the-Senate provision. — (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE KEMPTHORNE AMENDMENT NO. 196 TO AMENDMENT NO. 190, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT ANY LEGISLATION REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION SHALL SPECIFICALLY PREVENT SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FROM BEING REDUCED OR SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES FROM BEING INCREASED TO MEET THE BALANCED BUDGET REQUIREMENT.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) This is a vote on a non-binding sense-of-the-Senate amendment concerning Social Security.
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 (44)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul David Wellstone
Nay (56)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- John F. Kerry
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (0)
None
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