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House Roll Call 1033, 105th Congress · August 7, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE MORAN AMENDMENT, AS MODIFIED, TO PROHIBIT ANY FUNDS TO BE USED TO CARRY OUT ANY PROGRAM OF DISTRIBUTING STERILE NEEDLES OR SYRINGES FOR THE HYPODERMIC INJECTION OF ANY ILLEGAL DRUG.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

173 yea · 247 nayFailed14 not voting or present
Democrat150 yea · 46 nay
Republican22 yea · 201 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4380

District of Columbia 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) This needle exchange restriction is a policy fight where spending is incidental.

    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 (173)

Nay (247)

Not voting or present (14)

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