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House Roll Call 990, 103rd Congress · August 17, 1994

(HOUSE REJECTED THE CASTLE AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE, THAT SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH A "BUDGET RESERVE ACCOUNT," SETTING APPROPRIATED FUNDS ASIDE IN ADVANCE FOR USE IN A SPECIFIED FISCAL YEAR, WHICH FUNDS COULD BE USED ONLY FOR EMERGENCY FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICULAR NATIONAL DISASTERS OR NATIONAL SECURITY EMERGENCIES SO DESIGNED BY STATUTES; AND TO USE FUNDS IN THAT RESERVE ACCOUNT WHICH REMAIN UNOBLIGATED DURING THE FISCAL YEAR FOR WHICH THEY WERE APPROPRIATED FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION PURPOSES.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

184 yea · 231 nayFailed20 not voting or present
Democrat26 yea · 215 nay
Republican158 yea · 19 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4906 ↗

Emergency Spending 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(0.85): Directs unobligated emergency reserve funds toward deficit reduction.

    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 (184)

Nay (235)

Not voting or present (20)

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