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House Roll Call 591, 103rd Congress · November 22, 1993

(HOUSE REJECTED THE PENNY AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO CUT FEDERAL SPENDING BY $90.4 BILLION OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS INCLUDING CUTS IN MEDICARE BY $34.2 BILLION; MAKE VARIOUS RESCISSIONS IN FISCAL YEAR 1994 APPROPRIATIONS; AND CUT 252,000 POSITIONS FROM THE FEDERAL WORK FORCE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

213 yea · 219 nayFailed7 not voting or present
Democrat52 yea · 198 nay
Republican161 yea · 20 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3400

Government Reform and Savings Act of 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 “Restrict coverage”

    model(0.90): A yes vote cuts Medicare spending, moving toward restricting coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:medicare

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.95): A yes vote adopts federal spending cuts.

    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 (213)

Nay (219)

Not voting or present (7)

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