House Roll Call 1008, 105th Congress · August 5, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE MOLLOHAN AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO STRIKE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS LANGUAGE THAT FENCES HALF OF THE FY 1999 APPROPRIATION FOR THE DECENNIAL CENSUS UNTIL LEGISLATION RELEASING THE FUNDS IS ENACTED; FACILITATES THE RESOLUTION OF LEGAL ISSUES SURROUNDING THE CENSUS; AND USES THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES TO RESOLVE STATISTICAL ISSUES OF CENSUS METHODOLOGY. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

201 yea · 227 nayFailed7 not voting or present

Democrat197 yea · 4 nay

Republican3 yea · 223 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4276 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999

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 (0.90) Policy fight over census funding fencing.
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 (201)

Nay (227)

Not voting or present (7)

William Lacy Clay Sr.Did not vote
Randall H. CunninghamDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Scott McInnisDid not vote
Charles W. Pickering Jr.Did not vote
Maxine WatersDid not vote
W. Curtis WeldonDid not vote

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