Senate Roll Call 220, 99th Congress · October 10, 1985

TO AMEND H J RES 372 BY REQUIRING ANY LEGISLATION THAT IS ENACTED TO BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET SPECIFY THAT FUNDING INCREASES WOULD BE PROVIDED BY REDUCTIONS IN SPENDING ELSEWHERE, RATHER THAN THROUGH REVENUE INCREASES.

22 yea · 75 nay3 not voting or present

Democrat3 yea · 45 nay

Republican19 yea · 30 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): Mandating spending cuts rather than tax increases to balance the budget 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 (22)

Nay (75)

Not voting or present (3)

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