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House Roll Call 573, 104th Congress · July 27, 1995

H.R.2099 BY LEWIS, JERRY (R-CA) -- DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1996 (HOUSE REJECTED THE OBEY AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REDUCE NASA'S HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT ACCOUNT BY $1.6 BILLION; AND INCREASE VA MEDICAL CARE BY $230 MILLION, NASA SPACE, AERONAUTICS, AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BY $400 MILLION, ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ASSISTED HOUSING BY $200 MILLION AND THE ACCOUNT FOR SPECIAL NEEDS HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY, DISABLED, AND PERSONS WITH AIDS BY $200 MILLION.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

126 yea · 299 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat101 yea · 90 nay
Republican24 yea · 209 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2099 ↗

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996

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): Resulted in net reduction of total appropriations by over $500 million.

    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 (126)

Nay (299)

Not voting or present (9)

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