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House Roll Call 920, 103rd Congress · July 14, 1994

H.R.4600 BY SPRATT (D-SC) -- EXPEDITED RESCISSIONS ACT OF 1994 (HOUSE REJECTED THE SOLOMON SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO THE STENHOLM AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THAT SOUGHT TO GIVE THE PRESIDENT A LINE-ITEM VETO THAT WOULD BE EFFECTIVE UNLESS IT MET THE DISAPPROVAL OF BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE; TO GIVE THE PRESIDENT 20 CALENDAR DAYS TO SEND TO CONGRESS A PROPOSAL TO RESCIND ANY APPROPRIATIONS OR VETO ANY TARGETED TAX BENEFIT; TO GIVE CONGRESS 20 LEGISLATIVE DAYS AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S SUBMISSION TO PASS A JOINT RESOLUTION DISAPPROVING THE PROPOSAL TO RESCIND APPROPRIATIONS OR VETO TARGETED TAX BENEFITS; AND TO GIVE THE PRESIDENT, AFTER PASSAGE OF A JOINT RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL BY CONGRESS, 10 DAYS IN WHICH TO SIGN OR VETO IT, AND IF VETOED, CONGRESS WOULD HAVE 5 LEGISLATIVE DAYS IN WHICH TO OVERRIDE THE VETO.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

205 yea · 215 nayFailed16 not voting or present
Democrat27 yea · 215 nay
Republican178 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4600

Expedited Rescissions Act of 1994

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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Granting line-item veto authority aims to reduce spending and enforce fiscal restraint.

    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 (205)

Nay (218)

Not voting or present (16)

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