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House Roll Call 159, 105th Congress · June 4, 1997

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE BACHUS AMENDMENT THAT REQUIRES AN ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS LISTING OVERSEAS UNITED STATES SURPLUS PROPERTIES FOR SALE AND SPECIFIES THAT AMOUNTS RECEIVED FROM THESE SALES BE USED FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

277 yea · 146 nayAgreed to11 not voting or present
Democrat80 yea · 119 nay
Republican197 yea · 26 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1757 ↗

Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1997

Policy area: International Affairs — 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Directing proceeds from asset sales to deficit reduction promotes fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:deficit reduction

    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 (277)

Nay (146)

Not voting or present (11)

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