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Senate Roll Call 783, 97th Congress · August 3, 1982

TO AMEND S. J. RES. 58 WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. THE BIDEN SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT TOTAL OUTLAYS OF THE UNITED STATES DURING ANY FISCAL YEAR SHALL NOT INCREASE AT A RATE GREATER THAN THE RATE OF INCREASE IN THE GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT IN THE LAST CALENDAR YEAR ENDING BEFORE SUCH FISCAL YEAR, UNLESS BY A THREE-FITHS VOTE IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, CONGRESS SHALL HAVE AUTHORIZED A SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF OUTLAYS. THE BIDEN SUBSTITUTE ALSO PROVIDES THAT THE ALLOWABLE RATE OF INCREASE IN OUTLAYS FOR ANY FISCAL YEAR SET BY SUBSECTION (A) SHALL BE REDUCED, IF THE RATE OF INFLATION IN THE PRECEEDING CALENDAR YEAR IS GREATER THAN 6 PERCENT, BY ONE QUARTER OF THE AMOUNT BY WHICH THE INFLATION RATE EXCEEDS 6 PERCENT. AND, FINALLY, THE BIDEN SUBSTITUTE PROVIDES THAT TOTAL OUTLAYS SHALL INCLUDE ALL OUTLAYS OF THE UNITED STATES EXCEPT THOSE FOR REPAYMENT OF DEBT PRINCIPAL. SEE NOTE(S) 36

10 yea · 85 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat10 yea · 34 nay
Republican0 yea · 50 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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(0.85): Caps spending growth to the rate of GNP growth, imposing fiscal discipline.

    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 (10)

Nay (85)

Not voting or present (5)

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