Senate Roll Call 498, 108th Congress · March 10, 2004
To strike the outlay reconciliation instruction to the Committee on Finance.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2005 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 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 expansion”
model(0.90): Striking spending reduction instructions prevents mandatory spending cuts, leading to higher spending.
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 (53)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Jon Stevens Corzine
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Mark Dayton
- Michael DeWine
- 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
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ron Wyden
Nay (43)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Robert F. Bennett
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Saxby Chambliss
- Thad Cochran
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
- William H. Frist
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Zell Bryan Miller
- Lisa Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (4)
- Robert C. ByrdDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Tim JohnsonDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
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