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House Roll Call 1215, 104th Congress · July 24, 1996

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE GANSKE AMENDMENT THAT LIMITS ANY FUNDING BY THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE TO ISSUE PATENTS FOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES, WITH EXCEPTIONS DEALING WITH PATENTS FOR EQUIPMENT, COMPOSITION OF MATTER, AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

295 yea · 128 nayAgreed to10 not voting or present
Democrat106 yea · 87 nay
Republican188 yea · 41 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Policy restriction on patent issuance where fiscal impact is incidental.

    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 (295)

Nay (128)

Not voting or present (10)

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