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House Roll Call 306, 105th Congress · July 24, 1997

H.R.2160 BY SKEEN (R-NM) -- AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998 (HOUSE REJECTED THE OBEY AMENDMENT OFFERED ON JULY 22 THAT SOUGHT TO INCREASE WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC) FUNDING BY $23.7 MILLION AND REDUCE THE CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM FUNDING BY $36 MILLION.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

195 yea · 230 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat158 yea · 42 nay
Republican36 yea · 188 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2160 ↗

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998

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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): The amendment reduces spending on crop insurance by more than it increases spending on WIC.

    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 (195)

Nay (230)

Not voting or present (9)

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