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Senate Roll Call 125, 93rd Congress · May 10, 1973

TO AMEND S. 373 SO AS TO REQUIRE, IN FUTURE FISCAL YEARS, THAT CONGRESS PRESCRIBE A LIMIT ON FEDERAL EXPENDITURES PRIOR TO ENACTMENT OF ANY APPROPRIATIONS BILL.

37 yea · 52 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 48 nay
Republican34 yea · 4 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 373

A bill to insure the separation of Federal powers and to protect the legislative function by requiring the President to notify the Congress whenever he impounds or authorizes the impounding of funds, and to provide a procedure under which the Senate and House of Representatives may approve the President's action or require the President to cease such action.

Policy area: Congressional-Presidential relations — 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(0.95): Imposes spending caps prior to enactment of appropriations.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (38)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (10)

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