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House Roll Call 896, 100th Congress · October 4, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS S 1047, OMNIBUS INSULAR AREAS, TO AMEND PL 94-241, COVENANT TO ESTABLISH A COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS IN POLITICAL UNION WITH THE U.S., TO SANCTION VARIOUS ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INCLUDES THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, GUAM, MICRONESIA, THE MARSHALL ISLANDS, AND OTHER ISLANDS. MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.

416 yea · 2 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat240 yea · 0 nay
Republican176 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1047 ↗

A bill to modify section 301 of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Sanctioning administrative actions for insular areas does not clearly expand overall spending.

    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 (419)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (10)

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