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Senate Roll Call 474, 102nd Congress · September 9, 1992

To reduce the appropriation for the implementation of the Space Station Freedom program by $1,600,000,000 for the purposes of reducing the deficit in the Federal budget and increasing the appropriations for certain health-care related activities carried out by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. — H.R.5679 BY TRAXLER (D-MI) -- DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1993 (PUB. L. 102-389, APPROVED 10/06/92) (SENATE REJECTED THE BUMPERS MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 2956, TO REDUCE FUNDING FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SPACE STATION FREEDOM AND TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR CERTAIN VA HEALTH-CARE RELATED ACTIVITIES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

34 yea · 63 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat31 yea · 22 nay
Republican3 yea · 39 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5679 ↗

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993

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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.90): Amendment increases funding for VA health-care activities, expanding health care access and coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:health care

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Reallocates funds from space programs to VA health care and deficit reduction, mixing cuts and expenditures.

    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 (34)

Nay (63)

Not voting or present (2)

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