105th Congress / Bills / S CON RES 27

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An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.

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Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
5/23/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 91: On the Motion to Table motion to table specter amendment no. 340; To restore sufficient funding within the discretionary health function to maintain progress in medical research, offset by reductions in Federal agency administrative costs.
5/23/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 90: On the Motion to Table motion to table grams amdt no. 346; To require that the $225 billion CBO revenue receipt windfall be used for deficit reduction and tax relief, and that non-defense discretionary spending be kept at a freeze baseline level.
5/23/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 89: On the Amendment coverdell amdt no. 357; To provide children who have been victims of violent crime the ability to transfer to another school by allowing states and local educational agencies to use Federal eductation funds in the jurisdiction of the Labor Committee to assist such victims in attending any other school of their choice, whether public, private, or sectarian.
5/23/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 88: On the Amendment abraham amdt no. 316; To express the sense of the Senate that, to the extent that future revenues exceed the revenue aggregates contained in this resolution, those additional revenues should be reserved for deficit reduction and tax cuts only.
5/23/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 86: On the Amendment mccain amdt no. 326; To express the sense of the Senate regarding Truth in Budgeting and Spectrum Auctions.
5/22/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 85: On the Motion to Table motion to table inhofe amendment no. 301; To create a point of order against any budget resolution for fiscal years after 2001 that causes a unified budget deficit for the budget year or any of the 4 fiscal years following the budget year.
5/22/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 84: On the Amendment gramm amendment no. 320 as modified; To ensure that the 4.3 cent federal gas tax increase enacted in 1993, which for the first time dedicated a permanent gas tax increase to general revenues, will be transferred to the Highway Trust Fund, providing about $7 billion per year more for transportation infrastructure.
5/22/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 82: On the Motion to Table motion to table bumpers amendment no. 330; To delay the effectiveness of the tax cuts assumed in the Budget Resolution until the Federal budget is balanced.
5/22/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 81: On the Motion to Table motion to table bumpers amendment no. 331; To ensure that the Medicare cuts that will be enacted are not used to pay for tax cuts and that instead the tax cuts are completely paid for by the closure of tax loopholes.
5/22/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 80: On the Motion to Table motion to table warner amendment no.311; To ensure that transportation revenues are used solely for transportation.
5/22/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 79: On the Motion to Table motion to table moseley-braun amendment no. 336; To provide $5 billion for school repair, renovation, modernization, and construction priorities, offset by closing tax loopholes.
5/21/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 78: On the Amendment Mack amdt. no. 315; To express the sense of the Senate that the Federal commitment to biomedical research should be doubled over the next 5 years.
5/21/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 77: On the Motion to Table motion to table gramm amendment no. 318; To hold nondefense discretionary spending for fiscal years 1998 through 2002 to the levels proposed by President Clinton in his fiscal year 1997 budget request for these same years, saving $76 billion, and using these savings to increase the net tax cut from $85 billion to $161 billion, allowing full funding of the $500 per child tax credit and full funding of the capital gains tax cut.
5/21/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 76: On the Motion to Table Motion to table Hatch Amdt. No. 297; To provide affordable health coverage for low- and moderate-income children and for additional deficit reduction, financed by an increase in the tobacco tax; in addition to the amounts included in the bi-partisan budget agreement for one or both of the following: (1) Medicaid, including outreach activities to identify and enroll eligible children and providing 12-month continuous eligibility; and also to restore Medicaid for current disabled children losing SSI because of the new, more strict definition of childhood eligibility; and (2) a program of capped mandatory grants to States to finance health insurance coverage for uninsured children.
5/21/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 75: On the Amendment domenici amdt no. 307, as modified; To clarify the use of funds for health coverage for eligible children.
5/20/97	Senate	Rejected	Session 1, roll call 74: On the Amendment hollings amendment no. 295; To adjust the President's initiatives for increased spending and the tax cuts.
5/20/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 73: On the Motion to Table motion to table allard amendment no. 292; To require that any shortfall in revenues projected by the resolution be offset by reductions in discretionary spending.
5/20/97	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 72: On the Motion to Table motion to table dodd amendment no. 296 (as modified); To improve funding of critical programs to assist infants, toddlers and young children by increasing the discretionary spending caps by $15,752 billion in outlays over five years and offsetting this effort by closing corporate tax loopholes.