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Senate Roll Call 156, 99th Congress · July 18, 1985

TO INVOKE CLOTURE THEREBY ENDING DEBATE ON THE MOTION TO CONSIDER S 43, A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR A PRESIDENTIAL LINE-ITEM VETO BY REQUIRING THAT APPROPRIATIONS BILLS PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS BE ENROLLED AS A SEPARATE BILL OR JOINT RESOLUTION FOR PRESENTATION TO THE PRESIDENT. (MOTION FAILED; THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY REQUIRED.)

57 yea · 42 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 36 nay
Republican45 yea · 6 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 43 ↗

A bill to provide that each item of any general or special appropriation bill and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations that is agreed to by both Houses of the Congress in the same form shall be enrolled as a separate bill or joint resolution for presentation to the President.

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) Cloture on a motion to consider is a procedural 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 (57)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (1)

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