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House Roll Call 46, 104th Congress · January 26, 1995

Proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution of the United States — (HOUSE REJECTED THE CONYERS MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE JOINT RESOLUTION TO THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORTHWITH CONTAINING AN AMENDMENT TO EXEMPT SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS FROM TOTAL RECEIPTS AND OUTLAYS THAT MUST BE BALANCED.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

184 yea · 247 nayFailed3 not voting or present
Democrat173 yea · 22 nay
Republican10 yea · 225 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 1 ↗

Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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 expansion”

    model(0.90): Exempting Social Security from balanced budget calculations reduces fiscal constraints on federal spending.

    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 (247)

Not voting or present (3)

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