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House Roll Call 579, 104th Congress · July 27, 1995

(HOUSE REJECTED THE STOKES AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO STRIKE LANGUAGE DIRECTING LOCAL HOUSING AUTHORITIES TO DELAY ISSUING NEW VOUCHERS OR CERTIFICATES FOR SECTION 8 INCREMENTAL ASSISTANCE UNTIL OCTOBER 1, 1996, AND TO SLOW THE RATE AT WHICH PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS ARE DEVELOPED DURING FISCAL YEAR 1996.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

185 yea · 235 nayFailed14 not voting or present
Democrat179 yea · 12 nay
Republican5 yea · 223 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 expansion”

    model(0.85): Striking language that delays vouchers and slows development increases and accelerates federal housing spending.

    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 (185)

Nay (235)

Not voting or present (14)

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