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House Roll Call 43, 105th Congress · March 12, 1997

Request New Balanced Budget from the President — (HOUSE PASSED H. RES. 89, REQUESTING THE PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT A BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998 THAT WOULD BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET BY FISCAL YEAR 2002 WITHOUT RELYING ON BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Resolution

231 yea · 197 nayPassed4 not voting or present
Democrat7 yea · 193 nay
Republican224 yea · 3 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 89 ↗

Requesting the President to submit a budget for fiscal year 1998 that would balance the Federal budget by fiscal year 2002 without relying on budgetary contingencies.

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): Requests submission of a balanced budget without fiscal constraints.

    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 (231)

Nay (197)

Not voting or present (4)

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