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Senate Roll Call 489, 102nd Congress · September 16, 1992

To rescind certain appropriations made available in the Fiscal Year 1992 Department of Defense Appropriations Act under Title III "Procurement", and to make funds available to the Department of Education for "Student Financial Assistance". — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE SECTION 601(B)(1) OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974 WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF SPECTER AMENDMENT NO. 3000 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 2, LINE 24, TO PROVIDE FOR A TRANSFER OF FUNDS FROM THE DEFENSE DISCRETIONARY ACCOUNT TO THE DOMESTIC DISCRETIONARY ACCOUNT TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR THE PELL GRANT PROGRAM.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

30 yea · 67 nayMotion Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat25 yea · 28 nay
Republican5 yea · 37 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5677 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 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.

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Transferring defense procurement funds to Pell Grants expands the federal role and funding for education.

    Tagged by: keyword:pell grant

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Transferring funds from defense to student assistance is a net-neutral spending transfer between budget accounts.

    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 (30)

Nay (67)

Not voting or present (3)

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