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House Roll Call 1217, 104th Congress · July 24, 1996

(HOUSE REJECTED THE COLLINS OF GEORGIA AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REQUIRE FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, TO CONSIDER 20 PERCENT AS A REASONABLE SHARE OF THE FEDERAL MARKET FOR NEW PRODUCTS AND TO DESCRIBE THE PRODUCTS PRODUCED USING THE STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION CODE AND THE NATIONAL STOCK NUMBER ASSIGNED UNDER THE FEDERAL STOCK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

182 yea · 244 nayFailed7 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 152 nay
Republican141 yea · 91 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Regulates prison industry market share rather than punitive or reform policy.

    Tagged by: keyword:prison

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Procurement rule for prison industries with no direct fiscal expansion or cut.

    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 (182)

Nay (244)

Not voting or present (7)

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