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Senate Roll Call 771, 104th Congress · June 6, 1996

A joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. — H.J.R.1 BY BARTON (R-TX) -- CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AMENDMENT BALANCED BUDGET (CONTRACT WITH AMERICA) (TWO-THIRDS OF SENATORS VOTING, A QUORUM BEING PRESENT, NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, UPON RECONSIDERATION, SENATE AGAIN FAILED TO PASS H.J.RES. 1, PROPOSING A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Joint Resolution

64 yea · 35 nayJoint Resolution Defeated1 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 33 nay
Republican50 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Passes a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget.

    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 (64)

Nay (35)

Not voting or present (1)

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