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Senate Roll Call 144, 105th Congress · June 27, 1997

To modify the pay-as-you-go requirement of the budget process to prohibit the use of tax increases to pay for mandatory spending increases. — (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 CRAIG AMENDMENT NO. 569, TO MODIFY THE PAY-AS-YOU-GO REQUIREMENT OF THE BUDGET PROCESS TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF TAX INCREASES TO PAY FOR MANDATORY SPENDING INCREASES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

42 yea · 58 nayMotion Rejected
Democrat0 yea · 45 nay
Republican42 yea · 11 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 949 ↗

Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1997

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.80): Prohibiting tax increases as a PAYGO mechanism protects against tax hikes, favoring tax cuts.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (42)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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