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Senate Roll Call 324, 100th Congress · October 14, 1987

TO WAIVE THE SPENDING ALLOCATION LIMIT IN THE GRAMM-RUDMAN-HOLLINGS ANTI-DEFICIT LAW WITH RESPECT TO THE WEICKER, CT AMENDMENT TO HR 3058, THE FISCAL 1988 LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS, WHICH WOULD INCREASE SPENDING FOR THE LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM TO ITS FISCAL 1987 LEVEL OF $1.8 BILLION.

47 yea · 50 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat30 yea · 22 nay
Republican17 yea · 28 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3058 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Waiving spending limits to increase program funding is fiscal expansion.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (47)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (3)

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