House Roll Call 239, 105th Congress · June 25, 1997
Balanced Budget Act of 1997 — (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 2015, TO PROVIDE FOR RECONCILIATION PURSUANT TO SUBSECTIONS (B)(1) AND (C) OF SECTION 105 OF THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998.)
Question before the chamber: On Passage
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Balanced Budget Act of 1997
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(0.85): The Balanced Budget Act implements spending reductions and deficit control.
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 (270)
- Robert B. Aderholt
- Bill Archer
- Richard K. Armey
- Spencer Bachus
- Henry Scott Baesler
- Richard Hugh Baker
- Cass Ballenger
- James A. Barcia
- Bob Barr
- Bill Barrett
- Roscoe G. Bartlett
- Joe Barton
- Charles F. Bass
- Herbert H. Bateman
- Ken Bentsen
- Douglas K. Bereuter
- Brian P. Bilbray
- Michael Bilirakis
- Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
- Tom Bliley
- Roy Blunt
- Sherwood L. Boehlert
- John A. Boehner
- Henry Bonilla
- Sonny Bono
- Leonard L. Boswell
- Allen Boyd Jr.
- Kevin Brady
- Ed Bryant
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Dan Burton
- Stephen E. Buyer
- H. L. Callahan
- Ken Calvert
- Dave Camp
- Tom Campbell
- Charles T. Canady
- Christopher B. Cannon
- Walter Holden Capps
- Michael N. Castle
- Steve Chabot
- Saxby Chambliss
- Helen Chenoweth-Hage
- Jon Lynn Christensen
- Robert Clement
- Howard Coble
- Tom Coburn
- Michael Allen Collins
- Larry Combest
- Gary Condit
- Merrill Cook
- John Cooksey
- Robert E. Cramer Jr.
- Philip M. Crane
- Mike Crapo
- Barbara L. Cubin
- Randall H. Cunningham
- Pat Danner
- James Davis
- Thomas M. Davis III
- Nathan Deal
- Thomas Dale DeLay
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
- Jay Dickey
- Calvin M. Dooley
- John T. Doolittle
- Michael F. Doyle
- David Dreier
- John J. Duncan, Jr.
- Jennifer B. Dunn
- Thomas Edwards
- Vernon J. Ehlers
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
- Jo Ann Emerson
- Philip English
- John Eric Ensign
- Bob R. Etheridge
- Terry Everett
- Thomas W. Ewing
- Harris W. Fawell
- Mark Adam Foley
- Michael P. Forbes
- Tillie K. Fowler
- Jon D. Fox
- Bob Franks
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
- Elton Gallegly
- Greg Ganske
- George W. Gekas
- James A. Gibbons
- Wayne T. Gilchrest
- Paul E. Gillmor
- Benjamin Gilman
- Newton Leroy Gingrich
- Virgil H. Goode Jr.
- Bob Goodlatte
- William F. Goodling
- Barton Jennings Gordon
- Porter J. Goss
- Lindsey Graham
- Kay Granger
- James C. Greenwood
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht
- Tony P. Hall
- Lee Herbert Hamilton
- James V. Hansen
- Jane Harman
- J. Dennis Hastert
- Doc Hastings
- John D. Hayworth Jr.
- Joel Hefley
- Wally Herger
- Rick Hill
- Van Hilleary
- David Lee Hobson
- Peter Hoekstra
- Tim Holden
- Darlene Hooley
- Stephen Horn
- John Nathan Hostettler
- Amory Houghton Jr.
- Kenny C. Hulshof
- Duncan L. Hunter
- Asa Hutchinson
- Henry John Hyde
- Bob Inglis
- Ernest J. Istook Jr.
- William Lewis Jenkins
- Christopher John
- Nancy Lee Johnson
- Sam Johnson
- Walter B. Jones
- John R. Kasich
- Sue W. Kelly
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly
- Jay Kim
- Jack Kingston
- Gerald D. Kleczka
- Scott L. Klug
- Joseph K. Knollenberg
- James T. Kolbe
- Ray H. LaHood
- Nicholas V. Lampson
- Steve Largent
- Tom Latham
- Steven C. LaTourette
- Rick A. Lazio
- James A. Leach
- Jerry Lewis
- Ron Lewis
- John Linder
- Robert Linligthgow Livingston Jr.
- Frank A. LoBiondo
- Frank D. Lucas
- William Luther
- James Maloney
- Donald A. Manzullo
- Matthew G. Martínez
- Karen McCarthy
- Bill McCollum
- James O. McCrery III
- Joseph Michael McDade
- Paul F. McHale Jr.
- John M. McHugh
- Scott McInnis
- Mike McIntyre
- Howard P. "Buck" McKeon
- John L. Mica
- Dan Miller
- David Minge
- Susan Molinari
- James P. Moran
- Constance Morella
- Sue Wilkins Myrick
- George R. Nethercutt Jr.
- Mark W. Neumann
- Robert William Ney
- Anne Meagher Northup
- Charles W. Norwood Jr.
- James Allen Nussle
- Michael G. Oxley
- Ron Packard
- Michael James Pappas
- Michael Parker
- L. William Paxon
- Edward A. Pease
- John E. Peterson
- Thomas E. Petri
- Charles W. Pickering Jr.
- Joseph R. Pitts
- Richard W. Pombo
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy
- John Edward Porter
- Rob Portman
- Deborah D. Pryce
- Jack Quinn
- George P. Radanovich
- James M. Ramstad
- William Thomas Redmond
- Ralph Regula
- Frank D. Riggs
- Bob Riley
- Timothy Roemer
- James E. Rogan
- Harold Rogers
- Dana Rohrabacher
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
- Marge Roukema
- Edward R. Royce
- Jim R. Ryun
- Loretta Sanchez
- Mark Sanford
- H. James Saxton
- Joe Scarborough
- Daniel Schaefer
- Bob Schaffer
- F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
- Pete Sessions
- John B. Shadegg
- E. Clay Shaw Jr.
- Christopher H. Shays
- John Shimkus
- Elmer Greinert Shuster
- Norman Sisisky
- Joseph Skeen
- Ike Skelton
- Adam Smith
- Christopher H. Smith
- Lamar Smith
- Linda Smith
- Nick Smith
- Robert Freeman Smith
- Vincent K. Snowbarger
- Victor F. Snyder
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon
- Mark Edward Souder
- Floyd Spence
- John McKee Spratt Jr.
- Charles W. Stenholm
- Robert Stump
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- John S. Tanner
- Ellen O. Tauscher
- William J. Tauzin
- Charles H. Taylor
- Gene Taylor
- William M. Thomas
- Mac Thornberry
- John Thune
- Karen Thurman
- Todd Tiahrt
- James A. Traficant Jr.
- James Turner
- Fred Upton
- Peter J. Visclosky
- James T. Walsh
- Zach Wamp
- Wes Watkins
- J.C. Watts
- David J. Weldon Jr.
- W. Curtis Weldon
- Gerald C. Weller
- Richard Alan White
- Ed Whitfield
- Roger F. Wicker
- Frank R. Wolf
- C. W. Bill Young
- Don Young
Nay (162)
- Neil Abercrombie
- Gary L. Ackerman
- Thomas H. Allen
- Robert E. Andrews
- John Baldacci
- Thomas M. Barrett
- Xavier Becerra
- Howard L. Berman
- Robert Marion Berry
- Rod Blagojevich
- Earl Blumenauer
- David E. Bonior
- Robert A. Borski
- Frederick C. Boucher
- Corrine Brown
- George E. Brown Jr.
- Sherrod Brown
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Julia M. Carson
- William Lacy Clay Sr.
- Eva Clayton
- James E. Clyburn
- John Conyers, Jr.
- Jerry F. Costello
- William J. Coyne
- Elijah E. Cummings
- Danny K. Davis
- Peter A. DeFazio
- Diana DeGette
- William D. Delahunt
- Rosa L. DeLauro
- Ronald Vernie Dellums
- Peter Deutsch
- Norman D. Dicks
- John D. Dingell
- Julian C. Dixon
- Lloyd Doggett
- Eliot L. Engel
- Anna G. Eshoo
- Lane A. Evans
- Sam Farr
- Chaka Fattah
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr.
- Bob Filner
- Floyd Harold Flake
- Thomas Michael Foglietta
- Harold E. Ford Jr.
- Barney Frank
- Jonas Frost III
- Elizabeth Furse
- Sam Gejdenson
- Richard Andrew Gephardt
- Henry Barbosa González
- Gene Green
- Luis V. Gutiérrez
- Ralph M. Hall
- Alcee L. Hastings
- Willie Gathrel Hefner
- Earl F. Hilliard
- Maurice D. Hinchey
- Rubén Hinojosa
- Steny H. Hoyer
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr.
- Sheila Jackson Lee
- William J. Jefferson
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
- Jay W. Johnson
- Paul E. Kanjorski
- Marcy Kaptur
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy
- Dale E. Kildee
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
- Ron Kind
- Peter T. King
- Ron Klink
- Dennis J. Kucinich
- John J. LaFalce
- Tom Lantos
- Sander M. Levin
- John Lewis
- William O. Lipinski
- Zoe Lofgren
- Nita M. Lowey
- Carolyn B. Maloney
- Thomas J. Manton
- Edward J. Markey
- Frank Mascara
- Robert T. Matsui
- Carolyn McCarthy
- Jim McDermott
- James P. McGovern
- David M. McIntosh
- Cynthia McKinney
- Michael R. McNulty
- Martin T. Meehan
- Carrie Meek
- Robert Menendez
- Jack Metcalf
- Juanita Millender-McDonald
- George Miller
- Patsy Takemoto Mink
- John Joseph Moakley
- Alan B. Mollohan
- Jerry Moran
- John P. Murtha
- Jerrold Nadler
- Richard E. Neal
- James L. Oberstar
- David Ross Obey
- John W. Olver
- Solomon P. Ortiz
- Major R. Owens
- Frank Pallone, Jr.
- Bill Pascrell, Jr.
- Ed Pastor
- Ron Paul
- Donald M. Payne
- Nancy Pelosi
- Collin C. Peterson
- Owen B. Pickett
- Glenn Poshard
- David E. Price
- Nick J. Rahall II
- Charles B. Rangel
- Silvestre Reyes
- Lynn Rivers
- Ciro D. Rodriguez
- Steven R. Rothman
- Lucille Roybal-Allard
- Bobby L. Rush
- Martin Olav Sabo
- Matt Salmon
- Bernard Sanders
- Max A. Sandlin Jr.
- Thomas C. Sawyer
- Charles E. Schumer
- Robert C. "Bobby" Scott
- José E. Serrano
- Brad Sherman
- David Evans Skaggs
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Fortney Pete Stark
- Cliff Stearns
- Louis Stokes
- Ted Strickland
- Bart T. Stupak
- Bennie G. Thompson
- John F. Tierney
- Esteban Edward Torres
- Edolphus Towns
- Nydia M. Velázquez
- Bruce F. Vento
- Maxine Waters
- Melvin L. Watt
- Henry A. Waxman
- Robert Wexler
- Robert A. Weygand
- Robert E. Wise Jr.
- Lynn C. Woolsey
- Albert Russell Wynn
Not voting or present (3)
- C. Christopher CoxDid not vote
- Steven Harvey SchiffDid not vote
- Sidney Richard YatesDid not vote
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