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Senate Roll Call 580, 101st Congress · October 12, 1990

To obligate certain funds for use in programs promoting the health of children and the elderly. — TO TABLE THE HELMS (R, NC) AMENDMENT TO HR 5257, LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS, FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO TRANSFER CERTAIN FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE FOR PROGRAMS RELATING TO AIDS TO PROGRAMS RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF INFANT MORTALITY AND SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME, CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH CENTERS, MENTAL RETARDATION IN CHILDREN, AND PROGRAMS RELATING TO ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

69 yea · 23 nayMotion to Table Agreed to7 not voting or present
Democrat50 yea · 2 nay
Republican18 yea · 21 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5257

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 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) A net-neutral transfer of funds between health programs.

    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 (70)

Nay (23)

Not voting or present (7)

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