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Senate Roll Call 181, 101st Congress · September 19, 1989

To provide skills training to tenants of public amd assisted housing who are welfare recipients or who are unemployed by permitting such tenants to perform various construction and repair activities on public and assisted housing projects and to exempt such individuals from the Davis-Bacon Act. — TO TABLE THE NICKLES (R, OK) AMENDMENT TO HR 2916, VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS 1990, TO PROVIDE FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE UNEMPLOYED OR WELFARE RECIPIENTS TO RECEIVE TRAINING THAT WOULD GIVE THEM SKILLS.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

58 yea · 42 nayMotion to Table Agreed to
Democrat50 yea · 4 nay
Republican6 yea · 38 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2916 ↗

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, Independent 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Labor and training regulations on housing projects have an unclear fiscal direction.

    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 (58)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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