Senate Roll Call 12, 105th Congress · February 24, 1997
To strike the reliance on estimates and receipts. — (SENATE TABLED BYRD MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 6, TO STRIKE THE RELIANCE ON ESTIMATES AND RECEIPTS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require a balanced budget.
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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) The text is too vague to determine the fiscal effect of striking reliance on estimates and receipts.
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 (61)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Michael B. Enzi
- Dianne Feinstein
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Jeffords
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- Pat Roberts
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Nay (34)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (5)
- Robert F. BennettDid not vote
- Duncan McLauchlin FairclothDid not vote
- James M. InhofeDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
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