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Senate Roll Call 668, 104th Congress · March 27, 1996

An act to give the President line item veto authority with respect to appropriations, new direct spending, and limited tax benefits. — S.4 BY DOLE (R-KS) -- LINE ITEM VETO ACT (PUB. L. 104-130, APPROVED 4/9/96) (SENATE TABLED THE BYRD MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE CONFERENCE REPORT TO THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE WITH INSTRUCTIONS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

58 yea · 42 nayMotion to Table Agreed to
Democrat8 yea · 39 nay
Republican49 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 4 ↗

Line Item Veto Act

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): Tabling motion to recommit advances line item veto authority to curb 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 (58)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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