Senate Roll Call 671, 93rd Congress · March 22, 1974
TO AMEND S. 1541 BY REQUIRING A 2/3 MAJORITY VOTE OF THE CONGRESS TO INCREASE FEDERAL SPENDING LIMIT AFTER SUCH LIMIT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED BY THE FIRST CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Congressional Budgetary Procedures Act
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(0.95): Requiring a two-thirds vote to raise spending limits promotes 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 (23)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- John Little McClellan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Taft Jr.
- John Goodwin Tower
Nay (61)
- James George Abourezk
- James Browning Allen
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (17)
- George David AikenDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Marlow Webster CookDid not vote
- Norris H. CottonDid not vote
- Peter Hoyt DominickDid not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Frank Edward MossDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- William Stuart SymingtonDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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