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Senate Roll Call 125, 105th Congress · June 25, 1997

To provide for actuarially sufficient reimbursement rates for providers. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF LAUTENBERG (FOR WELLSTONE) AMENDMENT NO. 488, TO PROVIDE FOR ACTUARIALLY SUFFICIENT REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR PROVIDERS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

39 yea · 60 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 9 nay
Republican2 yea · 51 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 947 ↗

Balanced Budget Act of 1997

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 expansion”

    model(0.90): A yes vote waives budget rules to allow higher reimbursement rates for providers, expanding federal 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 (39)

Nay (60)

Not voting or present (1)

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