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House Roll Call 845, 115th Congress · April 12, 2018

Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

233 yea · 184 nayFailed11 not voting or present
Democrat6 yea · 178 nay
Republican225 yea · 5 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 2 ↗

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(0.95): Proposing a Constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget enforces strict fiscal restraint.

    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 (233)

Nay (184)

Not voting or present (11)

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