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Senate Roll Call 357, 105th Congress · April 1, 1998

To express the sense of the Senate that the Congress should begin to phase out the marriage penalty this year. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE FAIRCLOTH AMENDMENT NO. 2251, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE CONGRESS SHOULD BEGIN TO PHASE OUT THE MARRIAGE PENALTY THIS YEAR. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

99 yea · 0 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 0 nay
Republican53 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Sense of the Senate resolutions are non-binding expressions of opinion.

    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 (99)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (1)

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