Senate Roll Call 439, 106th Congress · April 7, 2000
To protect Social Security surpluses and reserve a portion of on-budget surpluses for Medicare and debt reduction.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 2001 through 2005 and revising the budgetary levels for fiscal year 2000.
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.
- Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”
model(0.80): Reserving surpluses for Medicare supports federal health coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Reserving budget surpluses for debt reduction 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 (44)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Robert C. Byrd
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Reid Edwards
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (56)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Michael B. Enzi
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Pat Roberts
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (0)
None
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