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House Roll Call 81, 104th Congress · February 2, 1995

(HOUSE REJECTED THE SLAUGHTER AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PROVIDE LANGUAGE WHICH WOULD EXPAND THE DEFINITION OF "TARGETED TAX BENEFIT" TO MEAN ANY PROVISION OF A REVENUE ACT WHICH HAS THE PRACTICAL EFFECT OF PROVIDING A BENEFIT IN THE FORM OF A DIFFERENT TREATMENT TO A PARTICULAR TAXPAYER OR A LIMITED CLASS OF TAXPAYERS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

196 yea · 231 nayFailed7 not voting or present
Democrat182 yea · 10 nay
Republican13 yea · 221 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2 ↗

Line Item Veto Act

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): Expanding the definition of targeted tax benefits subjects more tax breaks to line-item veto restraint.

    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 (196)

Nay (231)

Not voting or present (7)

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