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House Roll Call 1207, 104th Congress · July 23, 1996

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE MOLLOHAN AMENDMENT THAT INCREASES FUNDING FOR THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION BY $109 MILLION WITH OFFSETTING REDUCTIONS FROM THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND, FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM, PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, COURTS OF APPEALS AND DISTRICT COURTS, STATE DEPARTMENT DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PROGRAMS, BANKRUPTCY REVIEW COMMISSION, AND THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

247 yea · 179 nayAgreed to7 not voting or present
Democrat189 yea · 3 nay
Republican57 yea · 176 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3814

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 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.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.85): Cutting federal prison funding to support legal aid is reform-oriented.

    Tagged by: keyword:prison

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Financial RegulationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Reallocating discretionary budget offsets does not constitute financial regulation.

    Tagged by: keyword:securities and exchange

    Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) An amendment with matching spending offsets is a net-neutral transfer.

    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 (247)

Nay (179)

Not voting or present (7)

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