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Senate Roll Call 90, 106th Congress · April 22, 1999

To preserve and protect the surpluses of the social security trust funds by reaffirming the exclusion of receipts and disbursement from the budget, by setting a limit on the debt held by the public, and by amending the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide a process to reduce the limit on the debt held by the public.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

54 yea · 45 nayCloture Motion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 43 nay
Republican52 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 557 ↗

An original bill to provide guidance for the designation of emergencies as a part of the budget process.

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): Sets limits to reduce public debt and protect trust fund 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 (54)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (1)

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