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House Roll Call 517, 105th Congress · October 23, 1997

H.R.2646 BY ARCHER (R-TX) -- EDUCATION SAVINGS ACT FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS (HOUSE REJECTED THE RANGEL AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THAT SOUGHT TO INCREASE THE VOLUME CAP ON BONDS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION TO $4 BILLION. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

199 yea · 224 nayFailed10 not voting or present
Democrat194 yea · 4 nay
Republican4 yea · 220 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2646 ↗

Parent and Student Savings Account PLUS Act

Policy area: Taxation — 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.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.90): Increasing the volume cap for tax-exempt bonds provides tax relief, reducing federal revenue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • EducationA yea counts toward “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Increasing federal bond caps for school construction expands the federal role in education.

    Tagged by: keyword:public school

    Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (199)

Nay (224)

Not voting or present (10)

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