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House Roll Call 86, 104th Congress · February 6, 1995

(HOUSE REJECTED THE ORTON AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO DEFINE "DISCRETIONARY BUDGET AUTHORITY" TO INCLUDE THE AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO FUTURE CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS FOR WHICH FUNDS ARE NOT APPROPRIATED IN ADVANCE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

65 yea · 360 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat53 yea · 139 nay
Republican12 yea · 220 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.70) Expanding the definition of budget authority subjects more future obligations to budget controls and limits.

    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 (65)

Nay (360)

Not voting or present (9)

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