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House Roll Call 89, 104th Congress · February 6, 1995

Line Item Veto Act — (HOUSE REJECTED THE COLLINS OF ILLINOIS MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORTHWITH CONTAINING AN AMENDMENT DEFINING "TARGETED TAX BENEFIT" AS ANY PROVISION 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, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH PROVISION IS LIMITED BY ITS TERMS TO A PARTICULAR TAXPAYER OR CLASS OF TAXPAYERS, BUT WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY BENEFIT PROVIDED TO A CLASS OF TAXPAYERS DISTINGUISHED ON THE BASIS OF GENERAL DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS SUCH AS INCOME, NUMBER OF DEPENDENTS, OR MARITAL STATUS.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

185 yea · 241 nayFailed8 not voting or present
Democrat182 yea · 11 nay
Republican3 yea · 229 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 (0.85) Amending definitions within the Line Item Veto Act is a nuanced policy adjustment without a clear spending effect.

    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 (241)

Not voting or present (8)

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