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House Roll Call 307, 105th Congress · July 24, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE MEEHAN AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO INCREASE FDA TOBACCO INITIATIVE FUNDING BY $10 MILLION AND REDUCE THE CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM FUNDING BY $14 MILLION.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

177 yea · 248 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat135 yea · 67 nay
Republican41 yea · 181 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 cuts crop insurance spending by more than it increases FDA funding, netting a spend cut.

    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 (177)

Nay (248)

Not voting or present (9)

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