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Senate Roll Call 220, 101st Congress · September 29, 1989

To provide additional funds for construction of facilities for U.S. prisoners in non-Federal institutions. — TO TABLE THE SPECTER (R, PA) AMENDMENT TO HR 2991, COMMERCE, JUSTICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS, TO GIVE MORE FUNDS FOR THE BUILDING OF MORE FEDERAL PRISON FACILITIES.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

74 yea · 20 nayMotion to Table Agreed to6 not voting or present
Democrat50 yea · 2 nay
Republican23 yea · 18 nay
Independent1 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.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.85): Tabling an amendment to build more prison facilities stops a punitive expansion.

    Tagged by: keyword:prison

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Tabling an amendment to spend additional funds on prisons acts as fiscal restraint.

    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 (74)

Nay (20)

Not voting or present (6)

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