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Senate Roll Call 358, 105th Congress · April 1, 1998

To modify the pay-as-you-go requirement of the budget process to require that direct spending increases be offset only with direct spending decreases. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF THE CRAIG AMENDMENT NO. 2211, TO MODIFY THE PAY-AS-YOU-GO REQUIREMENT OF THE BUDGET PROCESS TO REQUIRE THAT DIRECT SPENDING INCREASES BE OFFSET. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

54 yea · 45 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat3 yea · 41 nay
Republican51 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Waiving the budget act to adopt stricter PAYGO rules requiring spending offsets promotes fiscal restraint.

    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 (54)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (1)

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