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House Roll Call 308, 105th Congress · July 24, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE LOWEY AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT CROP INSURANCE OR NONINSURED CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE FUNDING FOR TOBACCO FOR THE 1998 OR LATER CROP YEARS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

209 yea · 216 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat120 yea · 81 nay
Republican88 yea · 135 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(0.90): Prohibiting funding for tobacco crop assistance reduces federal spending.

    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 (209)

Nay (216)

Not voting or present (9)

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