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Senate Roll Call 1127, 95th Congress · October 13, 1978

TO MODIFY PROXMIRE AMENDMENT #2102 TO H.R. 50, THE FULL EMPLOYMENT AND BALNCED GROWTH ACT OF 1979. THE MUSKIE MODIFYING AMENDMENT LIMITS FEDERAL SPENDING TO A PERCENTAGE OF THE GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT (GNP) THAT IS THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PERCENTAGE THAT IS STILL CONSISTENT WITH NATIONAL NEEDS AND PRIORITIES. THE PROXMIRE AMENDMENT LIMITS FEDERAL SPENDING TO NO MORE THAN 21% OF THE GNP IN 1981 AND 20% OF THE GNP IN 1983.

56 yea · 34 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 8 nay
Republican7 yea · 25 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 50 ↗

Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978

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(0.85): Replacing rigid spending caps with flexible targets permits 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 (56)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (10)

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