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Senate Roll Call 617, 104th Congress · January 26, 1996

A bill making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a downpayment toward a balanced budget, and for other purposes. — (SENATE PASSED H.R. 2880, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996 TO MAKE A DOWNPAYMENT TOWARD A BALANCED BUDGET.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

82 yea · 8 nayBill Passed9 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 6 nay
Republican41 yea · 2 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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Passing a downpayment toward a balanced budget enacts spending reductions.

    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 (82)

Nay (8)

Not voting or present (9)

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