Senate Roll Call 669, 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. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 4, TO GIVE THE PRESIDENT LINE-ITEM VETO AUTHORITY WITH RESPECT TO APPROPRIATIONS, NEW DIRECT SPENDING, AND LIMITED TAX BENEFITS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report

69 yea · 31 nayConference Report Agreed to

Democrat19 yea · 28 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(0.90): Passing line item veto authority promotes spending cuts and fiscal restraint.
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 (69)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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