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House Roll Call 778, 100th Congress · September 8, 1988

TO AMEND HR 5210, OMNIBUS DRUG BILL, TO PREVENT CONVICTED DRUG USERS FROM RECEIVING CERTAIN FEDERAL BENEFITS EXEMPT WOULD BE RETIREMENT, WELFARE, HEALTH, DISABILITY AND SIMILAR BENEFITS.

335 yea · 67 nay26 not voting or present
Democrat162 yea · 66 nay
Republican173 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5210 ↗

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.95): Denying benefits to convicted drug users adds punitive sanctions.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Denying federal benefits reduces spending on those benefit programs.

    Tagged by: keyword:omnibus

    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 (337)

Nay (68)

Not voting or present (26)

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