Senate Roll Call 79, 104th Congress · February 23, 1995
A joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. — (SENATE TABLED THE BYRD AMENDMENT NO. 301, TO PROTECT FEDERAL OUTLAYS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE REDUCTION AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENT CRIME.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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 an amendment that protects federal outlays for crime prevention blocks spending expansion.
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 (68)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Mitch McConnell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (27)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (5)
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Howell Thomas HeflinDid not vote
- James M. InhofeDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
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