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House Roll Call 716, 97th Congress · October 1, 1982

TO PASS H. J. RES. 350, A MEASURE PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE CONGRESS TO ADOPT A BALANCED BUDGET EACH YEAR, EXCEPT IN TIME OF WAR, OR IF THREE-FIFTHS OF CONGRESS AGREE TO DEFICIT SPENDING. (MOTION FAILED)

236 yea · 187 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat63 yea · 166 nay
Republican174 yea · 20 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 350 ↗

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution altering Federal budget procedures.

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 balanced budget amendment enforces 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 (238)

Nay (188)

Not voting or present (6)

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