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House Roll Call 830, 95th Congress · March 15, 1978

TO AGREE TO SEVERAL AMENDMENTS OFFERED IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ASHBROOK AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 50. THE BAUCUS AMENDMENTS AFFIRM THAT ONE OF THE PURPOSES OF THIS ACT SHALL BE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF A BALANCED BUDGET THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE UNEMPLOYMENT GOALS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THE BILL. THE ORIGINAL ASHBROOK AMENDMENTS STATE THAT ONE OF THE PURPOSES OF THE ACT SHALL BE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF A BALANCED FEDERAL BUDGET BY 1983.

411 yea · 3 nay20 not voting or present
Democrat269 yea · 1 nay
Republican139 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 50 ↗

Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978

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(0.90): Affirming a balanced budget goal promotes 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 (411)

Nay (3)

Not voting or present (20)

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