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Senate Roll Call 291, 96th Congress · September 18, 1979

TO AGREE TO A SUBSTITUTE TO S. CON. RES. 36 TO REDUCE THE SPENDING TO BE SAVED BY THE RECONCILIATION INSTRUCTIONS IN THE CASE OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE FROM $1.7 BILLION IN OUTLAYS TO $1.4 BILLION AND IN THE CASE OF THE VETERANS' COMMITTEE FROM $200 MILLION IN OUTLAYS TO $100 MILLION. ALSO, A CEILING IS TO BE SET FOR THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE INTO WHICH ALL APPROPRIATION BILLS FOR 1980 MUST BE FIT. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 16

90 yea · 6 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat55 yea · 1 nay
Republican36 yea · 5 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

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): Reducing the required spending cuts leads to higher relative spending.

    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 (92)

Nay (6)

Not voting or present (2)

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