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House Roll Call 500, 105th Congress · October 8, 1997

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, FY’s 1998 and 1999 — H.R.1757 BY GILMAN (R-NY) -- FOREIGN AFFAIRS REFORM AND RESTRUCTURING ACT OF 1997 FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES CONSOLIDATION ACT OF 1997 FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 1998 AND 1999 PEACE CORPS ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1997 UNITED NATIONS REFORM ACT OF 1997 (HOUSE AGREED TO THE CALLAHAN MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON H.R. 1757, TO CONSOLIDATE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AGENCIES, TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR FISCAL YEARS 1998 AND 1999, TO INSIST UPON THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN TITLE XXI OF THE HOUSE BILL (RELATING TO UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO FORCED ABORTION AND FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS THAT PERFORM OR PROMOTE ABORTION). .)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Instruct Conferees

236 yea · 190 nayPassed7 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 156 nay
Republican192 yea · 33 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1757 ↗

Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1997

Policy area: International Affairs — 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.

  • Abortion & ContraceptionDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Text is truncated and does not specify what the motion instructs.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Text is truncated and does not describe the specific instruction.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (236)

Nay (190)

Not voting or present (7)

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