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House Roll Call 1063, 105th Congress · September 16, 1998

H.R.4550 BY PORTMAN (R-OH) -- DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION ACT DRUG-FREE MEDIA CAMPAIGN ACT OF 1998 DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE ACT OF 1998 DRUG FREE TEENAGE DRIVERS ACT DRUG-FREE PRISONS AND JAILS ACT OF 1998 DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT DRUG-FREE NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE ACT OF 1998 DRUG-FREE PARENTS EMPOWERMENT ACT ANTIADDICTION MEDICATION DEVELOPMENT ACT (HOUSE REJECTED THE TAYLOR OF MISSISSIPPI AMENDMENT THAT REQUIRES EACH INDIVIDUAL APPOINTED TO AN EMPLOYMENT POSITION WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AFTER ENACTMENT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO RANDOM, UNANNOUNCED DRUG TESTING.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

123 yea · 281 nayFailed30 not voting or present
Democrat8 yea · 175 nay
Republican115 yea · 105 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4550 ↗

Drug Demand Reduction Act

Policy area: Health — 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.

  • Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Mandating federal employee drug testing is an employment policy, not a health coverage issue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (123)

Nay (281)

Not voting or present (30)

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