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Senate Roll Call 948, 97th Congress · December 18, 1982

TO TABLE THE HELMS APPEAL OF THE RULING OF THE CHAIR SUSTAINING A POINT OF ORDER AGAINST THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 631. THE HELMS AMENDMENT WOULD FREEZE CONGRESSIONAL SALARIES AT THEIR PRESENT RATE UNTIL THE BUDGET IS BALANCED. (MOTION PASSED) (CONTINUED) SEE NOTE(S) 43

62 yea · 29 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat28 yea · 15 nay
Republican36 yea · 15 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 631 ↗

Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 1983

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Procedural vote on sustaining a point of order and ruling of the chair.

    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 (64)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (5)

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