or Login to see your representatives.

Access Candidates' and Representatives' Biographies, Voting Records, Interest Group Ratings, Issue Positions, Public Statements, and Campaign Finances

Simply enter your zip code above to get to all of your candidates and representatives, or enter a name. Then, just click on the person you are interested in, and you can navigate to the categories of information we track for them.

[x] close
Print Track This Legislation

Key Votes

H J Res 2 - Proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Key Vote

National Key Votes

Frank Pallone, Jr. voted Nay (Passage) on this legislation.

Read recent statements Frank Pallone, Jr. made in this general time period.

Stages

Family

Issues

Note

NOTE: AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES TWO-THIRDS APPROVAL IN EACH CHAMBER OF CONGRESS, AND RATIFICATION BY THREE-FOURTHS OF THE STATE LEGISLATURES WITHIN SEVEN YEARS OF THE DATE THE AMENDMENT WAS SUBMITTED.

Stage Details

Legislation-Joint Resolution - Joint Resolution Failed (House) (261-165) - (Key vote)

Title: Proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a joint resolution that submits a constitutional amendment to the states requiring a balanced federal budget.

Highlights:
  • Requires total federal expenditures to not exceed total federal revenue for a fiscal year, unless three-fifths of both chambers of Congress vote to authorize the specific expenditure that exceeds revenue.
  • Prohibits an increase of the public debt limit unless three-fifths of both chambers of Congress vote to authorize the increase.
  • Requires the President to propose a balanced federal budget to Congress prior to each fiscal year.
  • Authorizes Congress to waive the balanced budget requirement in one of the following circumstances:
    • If a declaration of war is in effect; or
    • If a joint resolution of Congress is passed and signed into law that declares the United States to be engaged in a military conflict resulting in an "imminent and serious military threat to national security".
  • Specifies that federal revenues do not include those derived from borrowing.
  • Specifies that federal expenditures do not include those made for debt repayment.
See The Voting Record


Legislation-Joint Resolution - Introduced (House) -

Title: Proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


Sponsors

Co-sponsors

About Project Vote Smart

Help Us If You Can

Media & Communications

Education

For Candidates

One Common Ground, Philipsburg, MT 59858 Hotline: 888-Vote-Smart (888-868-3762)
All content © 1992 - 2013 Project Vote Smart unless otherwise attributed - Privacy Policy - Legislative demographic data provided by Aristotle International, Inc. Mobile Version

Back to top