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House Roll Call 596, 102nd Congress · June 9, 1992

BALANCED BUDGET ACT — H.R.5333 BY KENNELLY (D-CT) -- BALANCED BUDGET BY FISCAL YEAR 1998, PROVISION (HOUSE FAILED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 5333, TO PROVIDE THAT, BEGINNING WITH FISCAL YEAR 1994, THE PRESIDENT TRANSMIT TO CONGRESS AND CONGRESS CONSIDER A BUDGET THAT REQUIRES A BALANCED BUDGET BY FISCAL YEAR 1998 AND FOR SUBSEQUENT FISCAL YEARS.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

199 yea · 220 nayFailed15 not voting or present
Democrat186 yea · 64 nay
Republican12 yea · 154 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5333 ↗

To provide that, beginning with fiscal year 1994, the President transmit to Congress and Congress consider a budget that requires a balanced budget by fiscal year 1998 and for subsequent fiscal years, and for other purposes.

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(0.95): Mandating a balanced budget restricts federal spending, moving toward 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 (199)

Nay (220)

Not voting or present (15)

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