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Senate Roll Call 541, 101st Congress · September 11, 1990

To interpret the word "child". — TO TABLE THE HELMS (R, NC) AMENDMENT TO THE BRADLEY AMENDMENT TO HR 5241, TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO INTERPRET THE WORD "CHILD".

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

63 yea · 36 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 6 nay
Republican13 yea · 30 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5241 ↗

Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991

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 (0.95) Defining child in an amendment is a policy interpretation, not a fiscal axis issue.

    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 (63)

Nay (36)

Not voting or present (1)

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