House Roll Call 791, 100th Congress · September 14, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 4994, FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES REFORM, TO ALLOW THE FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, A GOVERNMENT CORPORATION, TO ENLARGE ITS PROGRAMS BY BORROWING MONEY FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. MOTION FAILED; TWO THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT NOT VOTING IN FAVOR.

252 yea · 163 nay14 not voting or present

Democrat190 yea · 48 nay

Republican61 yea · 115 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4994 ↗

Federal Prison Industries Reform 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 “Reform-oriented”
model(0.80): Expands prison industry work and rehabilitation programs for inmates.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (253)

Nay (164)

Not voting or present (14)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.