House · Roll call 95 · 119th Congress, session 2

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced budget for the Federal Government.

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: Failed 211–207 on Mar 18, 2026. One member voted against the majority of their party.

Result: Not agreed to; Vote type: 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY
Yea: 211
Nay: 207
Present: 0; Not voting: 14

Mar 18, 2026 at 17:34 · Passage · Party-unity vote

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The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

H.J.Res. 139 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced budget for the Federal Government.
Failed· Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5)· Economics and Public Finance· Mar 18, 2026

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced budget for the Federal Government

Split by party

Yea on the left, nay on the right, scaled to each party's members.

1–207

210–0

Party	Yea	Nay	Not voting
Democrats	1	207	6
Republicans	210	0	8
Total	211	207	14

Seat chart

One seat per member, colored by their recorded position; outlined seats voted against their party's majority. Seats are grouped by party and ordered by DW-NOMINATE (Analisa's layout: House members have no assigned seats).

Yea 211Nay 207Not voting 14Voted against their party

Voted against their party

Members who voted yea or nay against most of their party's voting members.

Henry CuellarD-TX-28Yea

How each member voted

Recorded positions, by party and then position. Highlighted names voted against the majority of their party's voting members.

Democrats · 214

Yea · 1

Henry CuellarD-TX-28Against party

Nay · 207

Not voting · 6

Republicans · 218

Yea · 210

Not voting · 8

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)

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