House Roll Call 608, 96th Congress · November 28, 1979

TO COMMIT S. CON. RES. 53, SECOND BUDGET RESOLUTION, WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REDUCE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY AND OUTLAYS, EXCLUDING NATIONAL DEFENSE AND VETERANS AFFAIRS FUNCTIONS, BY 2%. (MOTION FAILED)

187 yea · 207 nay11 not voting or present

Democrat42 yea · 216 nay

Republican157 yea · 4 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 53 ↗

A concurrent resolution revising the Congressional Budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 1980, 1981, and 1982.

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): Instructions to reduce overall budget authority and outlays by 2 percent promote 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 (201)

Nay (221)

Not voting or present (11)

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