Senate Roll Call 50, 113th Congress · March 22, 2013

To prohibit the consideration of a budget resolution that includes revenue increases while the civilian unemployment rate is above 5.5 percent, the administration's prediction for the unemployment rate without the stimulus.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

45 yea · 54 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present

Democrat0 yea · 51 nay

Republican45 yea · 0 nay

Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 8 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.

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(0.80): Blocking budget resolutions that increase revenues enforces fiscal restraint and limits spending growth.
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 (45)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (1)

Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote

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