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House Roll Call 227, 99th Congress · July 24, 1985

TO ADOPT H RES 231, A RESOLUTION INSTRUCTING HOUSE COMMITTEES TO CONFORM THEIR BILLS TO THE HOUSE-PASSED BUDGET RESOLUTION THEREBY ELIMINATING THE NECESSITY OF SEPARATE FISCAL WAIVERS ON EACH BILL BROUGHT BEFORE THE HOUSE. THE RESOLUTION WOULD STAY IN EFFECT UNTIL CONGRESS ADOPTED A FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION. IT WOULD ALSO REQUIRE COMMITTEES AND SUBCOMMITTEES TO NOTIFY THE HOUSE OF BUDGET TARGETS, ALLOWING BUDGET COMPARISONS. (MOTION PASSED)

242 yea · 184 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat236 yea · 6 nay
Republican7 yea · 178 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 231 ↗

A resolution providing special budget procedures for the Fiscal Year 1986 Congressional Budget Process.

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(0.85): Enforces budget limits by requiring committees to conform to budget resolution targets.

    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 (244)

Nay (186)

Not voting or present (3)

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