House Roll Call 879, 98th Congress · October 2, 1984

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 6300, A BILL REQUIRING THAT THE PRESIDENT TRANSMIT TO THE CONGRESS AND THAT THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET COMMITTEES REPORT, A BALANCED BUDGET FOR EACH FISCAL YEAR. (MOTION PASSED;2/3 REQUIRED)

411 yea · 20 nay

Democrat252 yea · 7 nay

Republican157 yea · 13 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6300 ↗

A bill to require that the President transmit to the Congress, and that the congressional Budget Committees report, a balanced budget for each fiscal year.

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): Requiring a balanced budget promotes fiscal restraint and spending limits.
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 (412)

Nay (20)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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