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House Roll Call 499, 105th Congress · October 8, 1997

VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriations — H.R.2158 BY LEWIS, JERRY (R-CA) -- DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998 (PUB.L. 105-65, APPROVED 10/27/97) (HOUSE AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2158, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND FOR SUNDRY INDEPENDENT AGENCIES, COMMISSIONS, CORPORATIONS, AND OFFICES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1998. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Conference Report

405 yea · 21 nayPassed7 not voting or present
Democrat195 yea · 4 nay
Republican209 yea · 17 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2158 ↗

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent 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(0.95): Approving the conference report authorizes fiscal year appropriations.

    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 (405)

Nay (21)

Not voting or present (7)

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