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Senate Roll Call 571, 96th Congress · March 25, 1980

TO TABLE MUSKIE SUBSTITUTE TO S. RES. 380, EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE RELATIVE TO THE FIRST CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. THE MUSKIE AMENDMENT EXPRESSED THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET SHALL REPORT A FEDERAL BUDGET FOR FISCAL 1981 WHICH IS BALANCED AND WHICH RESERVES ANY SURPLUS FOR A TAX REDUCTION, AND SUCH ADDITIONAL SPECIFIC REDUCTIONS, IF ANY, NECESSARY TO REDUCE FEDERAL OUTLAYS FOR FISCAL 1981 BY 21% OF THE GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT. (MOTION FAILED)

45 yea · 52 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 52 nay
Republican40 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Res. 380 ↗

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the first concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1981 reported by the Committee on the Budget shall limit total budget outlays to 21 percent of the gross national product.

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): Tabling a fiscal restraint amendment requiring a balanced budget and spending cuts blocks 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 (45)

Nay (52)

Not voting or present (3)

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