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Senate Roll Call 348, 105th Congress · March 31, 1998

To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce class size by hiring 100,000 teachers. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED THE MOTION TO WAIVE CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF THE MURRAY AMENDMENT NO. 2165, TO ESTABLISH A DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REDUCE CLASS SIZE BY HIRING 100,000 TEACHERS. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

46 yea · 52 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 1 nay
Republican2 yea · 50 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 86 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 and revising the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998.

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): Waiving the Budget Act permits creating a reserve fund to hire teachers.

    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 (46)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (2)

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