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House Roll Call 884, 104th Congress · January 25, 1996

Making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a downpayment toward a balanced budget — H.R.2880 BY LIVINGSTON (R-LA) -- THE BALANCED BUDGET DOWNPAYMENT ACT, I (PUB. L. 104-99, APPROVED 1/26/96) (HOUSE REJECTED THE BONIOR MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORTHWITH CONTAINING AN AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE FOR THE RESTORATION FOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

193 yea · 222 nayFailed18 not voting or present
Democrat186 yea · 1 nay
Republican6 yea · 221 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2880 ↗

Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I

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(0.95): Instructions to restore education program funding increase 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 (193)

Nay (222)

Not voting or present (18)

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