Skip to content
Their Record

House Roll Call 609, 102nd Congress · June 11, 1992

BALANCED BUDGET CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT — (TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, THE HOUSE FAILED TO PASS 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.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

280 yea · 153 nayPassed2 not voting or present
Democrat110 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): Passing a constitutional balanced budget amendment enforces strict spending limits and 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 (280)

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.