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House Roll Call 601, 101st Congress · July 18, 1990

REQUIRING THE CONGRESS TO REPORT AND CONSIDER, AND THE PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT, A BALANCED BUDGET — TO PASS HR 5258, BALANCED BUDGET ACT OF 1990, 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.

Question before the chamber: On Passage

282 yea · 144 nayPassed1 not voting or present
Democrat234 yea · 13 nay
Republican50 yea · 132 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Passing a balanced budget requirement aims to mandate fiscal restraint.

    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 (285)

Nay (146)

Not voting or present (1)

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