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Jim Bates on Spending & Budget

DemocratCA

Spending & Budget650 votes · 87.5/100 consistent
Fiscal expansionFiscal restraint

1,004 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Spending & Budget. 650 of them counted toward the score above: 381 toward “Fiscal expansion” and 269 toward “Fiscal restraint”.

The other 354 did not count: 334 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 20 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

DateWhat was voted onVotedCounted as
1983-03-03TO ADOPT H. RES. 113, THE RULE UNDER WHICH H.R. 1718 IS TO BE CONSIDERED. (MOTION PASSED)H.R. 1718 · 98th CongressYeaDirection not readable
1983-03-03TO ORDER THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON H. RES. 113, THE RULE UNDER WHICH H.R. 1718 IS TO BE CONSIDERED. H.R. 1718 IS A BILL MAKING EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS TO MEET NEGLECTED NATIONAL NEEDS, TO PROTECT AND ADD TO THE NATIONAL WEALTH, RESULTING IN NOT MAKE-WORK BUT PRODUCTIVE JOBS FOR WOMEN AND MEN AND TO HELP PROVIDE FOR THE INDIGENT AND HOMELESS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1983. (MOTION PASSED)H.R. 1718 · 98th CongressYeaDirection not readable
1983-01-03TO COMMIT H. RES. 5 TO A SELECT COMMITTEE WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT THE RESOLUTION BACK WITH AN AMENDMENT STRIKING THE RULE CHANGE RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON THE OFFERING OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO APPROPRIATIONS BILLS. H. RES. 5 ESTABLISHES THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE NINETY-EIGHT CONGRESS. (MOTION PASSED)H.Res. 5 · 98th CongressNayDirection not readable
1983-01-03TO ORDER THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON A MOTION TO COMMIT H. RES. 5 TO A SELECT COMMITTEE TO BE APPOINTED BY THE SPEAKER WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT THE RESOLUTION BACK WITH AN AMENDMENT STRIKING THE RULE CHANGE RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON THE OFFERING OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO APPROPRIATIONS BILLS. H. RES. 5 ESTABLISHES THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE NINETY-EIGTH CONGRESS. (MOTION PASSED)H.Res. 5 · 98th CongressYeaDirection not readable

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Fiscal expansion / Fiscal restraint axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.