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House Roll Call 855, 104th Congress · December 20, 1995

Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996 — (HOUSE REJECTED THE OBEY MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE JOINT RESOLUTION TO THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORTHWITH CONTAINING A NEW TEXT THAT SOUGHT TO PROVIDE ENSURED PAYMENT DURING FISCAL YEAR 1996 OF VETERANS' BENEFITS IN THE EVENT OF A LACK OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996 NOT BEING AVAILABLE.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

178 yea · 234 nayFailed21 not voting or present
Democrat175 yea · 3 nay
Republican2 yea · 231 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 134 ↗

Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes.

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(0.90): The instructions seek to guarantee payments for veterans' benefits, expanding spending obligations.

    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 (178)

Nay (234)

Not voting or present (21)

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