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House Roll Call 439, 105th Congress · September 25, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE WATERS AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO INCREASE DRUG COURTS FUNDING BY $30 MILLION AND DECREASE THE VIOLENT OFFENDER INCARCERATION AND TRUTH IN SENTENCING INCENTIVE GRANTS FUNDING ACCORDINGLY .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

162 yea · 259 nayFailed12 not voting or present
Democrat148 yea · 53 nay
Republican13 yea · 206 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2267 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 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.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.90): Shifts funds from incarceration to rehabilitative drug court programs.

    Tagged by: keyword:incarceration

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Net-neutral transfer of funds between budget 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 (162)

Nay (259)

Not voting or present (12)

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