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Senate Roll Call 727, 104th Congress · May 16, 1996

To amend the motion to recommit to change instructions to report back with limits on congressional terms of 6 years in the House of Representatives and 12 years in the Senate. — (SENATE AGREED TO FRIST AMENDMENT NO. 3968 TO AMENDMENT NO. 3965, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING CAPS SHOULD NOT INCLUDE TRIGGERS THAT WOULD MAKE DRASTIC REDUCTIONS IN NON-DEFENSE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING IN FISCAL YEARS 2001 AND 2002 FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACHIEVING A BALANCED BUDGET IN FISCAL YEAR 2002.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

99 yea · 0 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 0 nay
Republican50 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.J.Res. 21 ↗

A joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms.

Policy area: Congress — 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 (0.90) The text describes congressional term limits while the context describes spending cap sense-of-Senate provisions.

    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 (99)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (1)

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