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House Roll Call 600, 101st Congress · July 18, 1990

REQUIRING THE CONGRESS TO REPORT AND CONSIDER, AND THE PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT, A BALANCED BUDGET — TO RECOMMIT HR 5258, BALANCED BUDGET ACT OF 1990, TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS TO MAKE ALL CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET RESOLUTIONS "JOINT" RESOLUTIONS, INSTEAD OF "CONCURRENT" RESOLUTIONS.

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

181 yea · 244 nayFailed2 not voting or present
Democrat6 yea · 240 nay
Republican176 yea · 6 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5258 ↗

To require that the President transmit to Congress, that the congressional Budget Committees report, and that the Congress consider a balanced budget for each fiscal year.

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 (0.85) Changing budget resolution types is a procedural issue with unclear net spending impact.

    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 (183)

Nay (247)

Not voting or present (2)

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