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Senate Roll Call 170, 106th Congress · June 16, 1999

A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to protect Social Security surpluses through strengthened budgetary enforcement mechanisms.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

55 yea · 44 nayCloture Motion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 43 nay
Republican53 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1259 ↗

Social Security and Medicare Safe Deposit Box Act of 1999

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): Strengthens budgetary enforcement mechanisms to restrict spending Social Security surpluses.

    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 (55)

Nay (44)

Not voting or present (1)

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