House Roll Call 843, 104th Congress · December 14, 1995

Prevent Disinvestment of Trust Funds — H.R.2621 BY ARCHER (R-TX) -- ENFORCEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT AND PROTECTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS, PROVISION (HOUSE REJECTED THE GIBBONS MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORWITH CONTAINING LANGUAGE CONSISTING OF A NEW TEXT THAT SOUGHT TO PROVIDE THAT THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MAY USE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS ONLY FOR THE PURPOSES OF PAYING SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS UNDER PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED PRACTICES; AND THAT THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MAY UTILIZE CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT FUNDS TO AVOID GOVERNMENT DEFAULT IN TIMES OF A FORCED DEBT CEILING CRISIS AND THAT SUCH FUNDS SHALL BE RESTORED FULLY, INCLUDING INTEREST, AS REQUIRED BY PROVISIONS IN THE UNITED STATES CODE.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

190 yea · 229 nayFailed13 not voting or present

Democrat186 yea · 3 nay

Republican3 yea · 226 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2621 ↗

To enforce the public debt limit and to protect the social security trust funds and other federal trust funds and accounts invested in public debt obligations.

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) This motion addresses trust fund accounting procedures during a debt ceiling impasse.
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 (190)

Nay (229)

Not voting or present (13)

Frederick C. BoucherDid not vote
Norvell William EmersonDid not vote
Enid Greene WaldholtzDid not vote
James V. HansenDid not vote
Jane HarmanDid not vote
Scott McInnisDid not vote
Cynthia McKinneyDid not vote
Kweisi MfumeDid not vote
Major R. OwensDid not vote
Ileana Ros-LehtinenDid not vote
Floyd SpenceDid not vote
Walter R. Tucker IIIDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote

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