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House Roll Call 936, 103rd Congress · July 21, 1994

H.R.4604 BY SPRATT (D-SC) -- BUDGET CONTROL ACT OF 1994 (HOUSE REJECTED THE KASICH AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THAT SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH A CAP ON ENTITLEMENT SPENDING AND CONVERT THE BUDGET RESOLUTION FROM A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO A JOINT RESOLUTION, REQUIRING THE SIGNATURE OF THE PRESIDENT AND CARRYING THE FORCE OF LAW; REQUIRE COMMITTEES TO ESTABLISH CAPS ON INDIVIDUAL ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS WITHIN THEIR JURISDICTIONS; AND INCLUDE A CLAUSE WHEREBY AUTOMATIC SPENDING REDUCTIONS WOULD BE TRIGGERED IF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET FOUND THAT SPENDING WOULD EXCEED THE CAPS.)

Question before the chamber: ON AGREEING TO THE AMENDMENT

194 yea · 230 nayFailed12 not voting or present
Democrat22 yea · 224 nay
Republican172 yea · 8 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4604 ↗

Budget Control Act of 1994

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): Capping entitlement spending and enforcing automatic cuts promotes 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 (194)

Nay (233)

Not voting or present (12)

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