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House Roll Call 252, 102nd Congress · September 17, 1991

H.R.3040 BY ROSTENKOWSKI (D-IL) -- TAX EXTENSION ACT OF 1992 (HOUSE REJECTED THE ROSTENKOWSKI AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REPLACE A PROVISION WHICH AUTOMATICALLY DECLARES EXPENDITURES AS "EMERGENCY" FUNDS FOR PURPOSES OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT, AND TO PROVIDE THAT, IF THE PRESIDENT DID NOT SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATE FUNDS AS "EMERGENCY" EXPENDITURES ON THE DATE OF THE ENACTMENT OF THIS BILL, THE FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT TAX WOULD BE INCREASED FOR MANY EMPLOYERS TO PAY FOR THE EXTENDED BENEFITS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

65 yea · 341 nayFailed26 not voting or present
Democrat57 yea · 184 nay
Republican6 yea · 156 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3040 ↗

Tax Extension Act of 1992

Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Worker priority”

    model(0.85): Raising employer unemployment taxes to fund extended benefits favors worker priority.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.80): Requiring tax offsets instead of emergency spending promotes fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget

    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 (65)

Nay (341)

Not voting or present (26)

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