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House Roll Call 361, 99th Congress · November 6, 1985

MOTION FOR THE CONFEREES IN BOTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE CONCERNING H J RES 372 AGREE THAT THERE MUST BE A SCHEDULE TO BALANCE THE NATIONAL BUDGET BY 1991 AND THAT THE SCHEDULE MUST STIPULATE LIMITS FOR EACH YEAR THAT THE DEFICIT MAY NOT PASS. THE MOTION ALSO HAS THE CONFEREES DISAGREE TO A SECTION OF THE RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT THE GOVERNMENT FROM FOLLOWING THE SCHEDULE IF THE COURTS DEEMED ANY PART OF THE RESOLUTION UNCONSTITUTIONAL. (MOTION FAILED)

181 yea · 239 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 233 nay
Republican177 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 372 ↗

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985

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): Instructing conferees to enforce a balanced budget schedule and deficit limits 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 (184)

Nay (242)

Not voting or present (8)

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