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Senate Roll Call 213, 99th Congress · October 9, 1985

TO AMEND H J RES 372 LIMITING THE SIZE OF THE ANNUAL PERMISSIBLE BUDGET DEFICIT UNTIL ZERO BALANCE IS ACHIEVED IN 1991.

75 yea · 24 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat28 yea · 20 nay
Republican47 yea · 4 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(0.90): Capping permissible budget deficits imposes statutory spending control and 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 (75)

Nay (24)

Not voting or present (1)

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