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House Roll Call 187, 101st Congress · August 1, 1989

TO PASS HR 2991, COMMERCE, STATE AND JUSTICE APPROPRIATIONS, TO EXEMPT FROM ANTITRUST LAWS CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RELATING TO ALLEVIATION OF THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF VIOLENCE IN TELECAST MATERIAL.

258 yea · 165 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat202 yea · 40 nay
Republican54 yea · 125 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2991 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990

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(0.90): Passing an appropriations bill authorizes federal spending.

    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 (258)

Nay (165)

Not voting or present (8)

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