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House Roll Call 1209, 104th Congress · July 23, 1996

(HOUSE REJECTED THE SCHROEDER AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO INCREASE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION FUNDING BY $13 MILLION AND REDUCE FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM FUNDING ACCORDINGLY.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

159 yea · 265 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat150 yea · 42 nay
Republican8 yea · 223 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): Reducing federal prison system funding to boost civil rights enforcement is reform-oriented.

    Tagged by: keyword:prison

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Net-neutral transfer of funds between two accounts.

    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 (159)

Nay (265)

Not voting or present (9)

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