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Posted: 2:41 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, 2011
Balanced Budget Vote
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By Jamie Dupree
The House on Friday defeated a plan backed by Republicans to amend the U.S. Constitution with a Balanced Budget Amendment. The vote was 261-165 in favor of the effort, but a supermajority of two-thirds was needed for approval, as supporters fell 23 votes short.
Here is the breakdown of the vote:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 858(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H J RES 2 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 18-Nov-2011 1:58 PM
QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
BILL TITLE: Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States
| YEAS | NAYS | PRES | NV | |
| REPUBLICAN | 236 | 4 | 2 | |
| DEMOCRATIC | 25 | 161 | 6 | |
| INDEPENDENT | ||||
| TOTALS | 261 | 165 | 8 |
---- YEAS 261 ---
| Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Altmire Amodei Austria Bachmann Bachus Barletta Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boren Boswell Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks Broun (GA) Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Calvert Camp Campbell Canseco Cantor Capito Cardoza Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Chandler Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Cooper Costa Costello Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Culberson Davis (KY) DeFazio Denham Dent DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dold Donnelly (IN) Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Flake Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly | Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gingrey (GA) Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Hochul Holden Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Inslee Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Kelly Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kissell Kline Labrador Lamborn Lance Landry Lankford Latham LaTourette Latta Lewis (CA) Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant Marino Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meehan Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary | Mulvaney Murphy (PA) Myrick Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunnelee Olson Palazzo Paulsen Pearce Pence Peterson Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Quayle Reed Rehberg Reichert Renacci Ribble Rigell Rivera Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross (AR) Ross (FL) Royce Runyan Scalise Schilling Schmidt Schock Schweikert Scott (SC) Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuler Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stearns Stivers Stutzman Sullivan Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Turner (NY) Turner (OH) Upton Walberg Walden Walsh (IL) Webster West Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Yoder Young (AK) Young (FL) Young (IN) |
---- NAYS 165 ---
| Ackerman Amash Andrews Baca Baldwin Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Butterfield Capps Capuano Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chu Cicilline Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Courtney Critz Crowley Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeGette DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Dreier Edwards Ellison Engel Eshoo Farr Fattah Frank (MA) Fudge Garamendi Gohmert Gonzalez Green, Al | Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hahn Hanabusa Hastings (FL) Heinrich Higgins Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Holt Honda Hoyer Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kaptur Keating Kildee Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maloney Markey Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McNerney Meeks Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore Moran Murphy (CT) Nadler Neal Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) | Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Pingree (ME) Polis Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reyes Richardson Richmond Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell Sherman Sires Slaughter Smith (WA) Speier Stark Sutton Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Welch Wilson (FL) Woolsey Yarmuth |
---- NOT VOTING 8 ---
| Bass (CA) Deutch Filner | Giffords Napolitano Nunes | Olver Paul |
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