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Senate Roll Call 66, 98th Congress · May 4, 1983

(CONTINUED) TO AGREE TO HOLLINGS AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR HATCH AMENDMENT (#1227) TO S.CON.RES.27, THE FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION FOR 1984. THE HATCH AMENDMENT CALLS FOR A MODIFIED SPENDING FREEZE TO OBTAIN A BALANCED BUDGET IN A SEVERAL-YEAR PERIOD. THE HATCH AMENDMENT FREEZES "DISCRETIONARY" SPENDING AT ITS PRESENT LEVELS BUT INCREASES DEFENSE BY $285 BILLION. THE HOLLINGS AMENDMENT IS "A SUBSTITUTE OF A REAL BUDGET FREEZE FOR THIS SO-CALLED FREEZE AMENDMENT" (P.5921) AND CALLS FOR A FREEZE ON BOTH DOMESTIC AND DEFENSE SPENDING. (MOTION FAILED)

16 yea · 82 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 33 nay
Republican2 yea · 49 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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Freezing both defense and domestic spending promotes fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget,budget resolution

    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 (16)

Nay (82)

Not voting or present (2)

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