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House Roll Call 76, 105th Congress · April 15, 1997

Tax Limitation Constitutional Amendment — H.J.R.62 BY BARTON (R-TX) -- CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AMENDMENT TAX LIMITATIONS (TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT AND FAILING TO VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, THE HOUSE FAILED TO PASS H.J.RES. 62, AS AMENDED PURSUANT TO THE RULE, PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES WITH RESPECT TO TAX LIMITATIONS.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

233 yea · 190 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat24 yea · 173 nay
Republican209 yea · 16 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 62 ↗

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to tax limitations.

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): Constitutional tax limitation makes raising tax revenues much harder.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (233)

Nay (190)

Not voting or present (9)

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