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Senate Roll Call 70, 106th Congress · March 25, 1999

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.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

52 yea · 47 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 43 nay
Republican50 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 20 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 2000 through 2009.

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(0.90): Requiring spending increases to be offset only with spending cuts enforces 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 (52)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (1)

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