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House Roll Call 1046, 103rd Congress · October 3, 1994

PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1994 — H.R.4608 BY HUGHES (D-NJ) -- PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1994 (TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT NOT VOTING IN FAVOR, THE HOUSE FAILED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 4608, AMENDED, TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1995.)

Question before the chamber: SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS, AS AMENDED

146 yea · 251 nayFailed37 not voting or present
Democrat86 yea · 137 nay
Republican59 yea · 114 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4608 ↗

Patent and Trademark Office Authorization Act of 1994

Policy area: Commerce — 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Authorizing appropriations for the Patent and Trademark Office represents fiscal expansion.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (146)

Nay (251)

Not voting or present (37)

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