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House Roll Call 260, 104th Congress · March 24, 1995

Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 — (HOUSE REJECTED THE GIBBONS MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORTHWITH CONTAINING AN AMENDMENT PROVIDING THAT REDUCTIONS IN OUTLAYS RESULTING FROM THE ENACTMENT OF THE ACT SHALL BE USED TO REDUCE THE DEFICIT AND SHALL NOT BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 252 OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT OF 1985.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

205 yea · 228 nayFailed2 not voting or present
Democrat194 yea · 2 nay
Republican10 yea · 226 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4 ↗

Work Opportunity Act of 1995

Policy area: Social Welfare — 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(0.90): Directing outlay reductions toward deficit reduction rather than spending or tax offsets promotes fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget

    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 (205)

Nay (228)

Not voting or present (2)

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