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Senate Roll Call 614, 104th Congress · January 26, 1996

To maintain funding for education programs. — H.R.2880 BY LIVINGSTON (R-LA) -- THE BALANCED BUDGET DOWNPAYMENT ACT, I (PUB. L. 104-99, APPROVED 1/26/96) (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 3119, TO MAINTAIN FUNDING FOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

51 yea · 40 nayMotion Rejected8 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 1 nay
Republican5 yea · 39 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2880 ↗

Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I

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): Voting yes to allow consideration of maintaining education funding promotes higher 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 (40)

Not voting or present (8)

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