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Senate Roll Call 774, 97th Congress · August 3, 1982

TO AMEND S. J. RES. 58 TO PROVIDE THAT, ON AND AFTER THE DATE THE ARTICLE TAKES EFFECT, THE AMOUNT OF FEDERAL PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT AS OF SUCH DATE SHALL BECOME PERMANENT AND THERE SHALL BE NO INCREASE IN SUCH AMOUNT UNLESS THREE-FITHS OF THE WHOLE NUMBER OF BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS SHALL HAVE PASSED A BILL APPROVING SUCH INCRASE AND SUCH BILL HAS BECOME LAW. SEE NOTE(S) 36

51 yea · 45 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat30 yea · 15 nay
Republican21 yea · 30 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.J.Res. 58 ↗

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution altering Federal fiscal decision-making procedures.

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(0.90): Freezes the public debt limit unless raised by a three-fifths supermajority vote.

    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 (52)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (3)

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