Lawrence Jack Smith on Spending & Budget

DemocratFL

Spending & Budget790 votes · 93.8/100 consistent

Fiscal expansionFiscal restraint

1,301 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Spending & Budget. 790 of them counted toward the score above: 666 toward “Fiscal expansion” and 124 toward “Fiscal restraint”.

The other 511 did not count: 435 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 76 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
1983-01-03	TO ORDER THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON A MOTION TO COMMIT H. RES. 5 TO A SELECT COMMITTEE TO BE APPOINTED BY THE SPEAKER WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT THE RESOLUTION BACK WITH AN AMENDMENT STRIKING THE RULE CHANGE RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON THE OFFERING OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO APPROPRIATIONS BILLS. H. RES. 5 ESTABLISHES THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE NINETY-EIGTH CONGRESS. (MOTION PASSED)H.Res. 5 · 98th Congress	Yea	Direction not readable

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Fiscal expansion / Fiscal restraint axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.