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House Roll Call 608, 102nd Congress · June 11, 1992

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE STENHOLM AMENDMENT REQUIRING THAT THE TOTAL OUTLAYS FOR ANY FISCAL YEAR NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR THAT FISCAL YEAR UNLESS THREE-FIFTHS OF THE WHOLE NUMBER OF EACH HOUSE PROVIDED BY LAW FOR A SPECIFIC EXCESS OF OUTLAYS OVER RECEIPTS BY A ROLLCALL VOTE; THAT THE LIMIT ON THE DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES NOT BE INCREASED UNLESS THREE-FIFTHS OF THE WHOLE NUMBER OF EACH HOUSE PROVIDED BY LAW FOR SUCH AN INCREASE BY A ROLLCALL VOTE; AND THAT NO BILL TO INCREASE REVENUE BECOME LAW UNLESS APPROVED BY A MAJORITY OF THE WHOLE NUMBER OF EACH HOUSE BY A ROLLCALL VOTE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

279 yea · 153 nayAgreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat109 yea · 148 nay
Republican169 yea · 3 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 290 ↗

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for a balanced budget for the United States Government and for greater accountability in the enactment of tax legislation.

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): Requiring balanced budgets and supermajorities for deficit spending enforces 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 (279)

Nay (153)

Not voting or present (2)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.