House Roll Call 142, 105th Congress · May 21, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE DOOLITTLE AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THAT SOUGHT TO ACHIEVE A BALANCED BUDGET AND REDUCE NON-DEFENSE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING, PROVIDE ADDITIONAL TAX CUTS, AND ALLOW A POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ANY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET OR AGAINST ANY MEASURE THAT WOULD CAUSE TOTAL OUTLAYS TO EXCEED TOTAL RECEIPTS IN FY 2002 AND BEYOND.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

119 yea · 313 nayFailed3 not voting or present

Democrat1 yea · 201 nay

Republican118 yea · 111 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Con.Res. 84 ↗

Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.

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(0.95): The amendment sought to enforce fiscal restraint by cutting non-defense spending and limiting spending deficits.
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 (119)

Nay (313)

Not voting or present (3)

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