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House Roll Call 145, 105th Congress · May 21, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE SHUSTER AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THAT SOUGHT TO ACHIEVE A BALANCED BUDGET AND INCREASE OUTLAYS FOR FEDERAL HIGHWAY AND MASS TRANSIT PROGRAMS WITH OFFSETS FROM A 0.39 PERCENT ACROSS THE BOARD REDUCTION TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING AND TAX CUTS PHASED IN OVER FOUR YEARS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

214 yea · 216 nayFailed5 not voting or present
Democrat154 yea · 47 nay
Republican59 yea · 169 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Con.Res. 84 ↗

Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1998 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.

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) The amendment combines spending increases in transit with across-the-board spending cuts, moving both ways.

    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 (214)

Nay (216)

Not voting or present (5)

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