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House Roll Call 365, 105th Congress · September 8, 1997

H.R.2264 BY PORTER (R-IL) -- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998 DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998 (PUB.L. 105-78, APPROVED 11/13/97) (HOUSE REJECTED THE BLUNT AMENDMENT TO INCREASE VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION FUNDING BY $11.2 MILLION AND REDUCE OSHA FUNDING ACCORDINGLY. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

160 yea · 237 nayFailed36 not voting or present
Democrat3 yea · 179 nay
Republican157 yea · 57 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2264 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 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.

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Employer priority”

    model(0.90): A yes vote cuts OSHA funding, favoring employer priorities over worker protections.

    Tagged by: keyword:osha

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Net-neutral transfer of funds between accounts.

    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 (160)

Nay (237)

Not voting or present (36)

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