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House Roll Call 469, 105th Congress · September 30, 1997

H.R.2267 BY ROGERS (R-KY) -- DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998 (HOUSE REJECTED THE MOLLOHAN AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO RETAIN THE FULL $381.8 MILLION APPROPRIATED FOR CENSUS 2000; STRIKE COMMITTEE-REPORTED LANGUAGE FENCING ALL BUT $100 MILLION UNTIL ENACTMENT OF AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION AND PROHIBIT THE USE OF THE UN-FENCED $100 MILLION FOR ACTIVITIES RELATING TO SAMPLING; PROHIBIT THE USE OF ANY 1998 FUNDS TO MAKE IRREVERSIBLE PLANS FOR THE USE OF SAMPLING OR OTHER STATISTICAL METHOD IN TAKING THE CENSUS FOR PURPOSES OF CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT; AND CREATE A BOARD OF OBSERVERS FOR A FAIR AND ACCURATE CENSUS. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

197 yea · 228 nayFailed8 not voting or present
Democrat192 yea · 8 nay
Republican4 yea · 220 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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Restoring full census funding and removing spending restrictions increases expenditure.

    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 (197)

Nay (228)

Not voting or present (8)

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