House Roll Call 1184, 104th Congress · July 16, 1996

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE GUTKNECHT AMENDMENT THAT LIMITS, TO 2,300, THE NUMBER OF POLITICAL APPOINTEES IN ANY FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING AFTER SEPTEMBER 30, 1997.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

267 yea · 150 nayAgreed to16 not voting or present

Democrat57 yea · 130 nay

Republican210 yea · 19 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3756 ↗

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997

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(0.85): Capping the number of political appointees reduces government personnel expenses, promoting 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 (267)

Nay (150)

Not voting or present (16)

Eligio II de la GarzaDid not vote
Norman D. DicksDid not vote
Harold Eugene FordDid not vote
Tony P. HallDid not vote
James Allison HayesDid not vote
Blanche Lambert LincolnDid not vote
Joseph Michael McDadeDid not vote
Martin T. MeehanDid not vote
George MillerDid not vote
Susan MolinariDid not vote
L. William PaxonDid not vote
Charles Grandison Rose IIIDid not vote
Martin Olav SaboDid not vote
Louise McIntosh SlaughterDid not vote
Robert Smith WalkerDid not vote
C. W. Bill YoungDid not vote

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