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House Roll Call 610, 105th Congress · November 8, 1997

Regarding Items Line Item Vetoed in the Military Construction Appropriations Conference Report — H.R.2631 BY SKEEN (R-NM) -- CANCELLATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT REGARDING PUBLIC LAW 105-45, DISAPPROVAL (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 2631, DISAPPROVING THE CANCELLATIONS TRANSMITTED BY THE PRESIDENT ON OCTOBER 6, 1997, REGARDING PUBLIC LAW 105-45. .)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

352 yea · 64 nayPassed18 not voting or present
Democrat156 yea · 41 nay
Republican195 yea · 23 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2631 ↗

Disapproving the cancellations transmitted by the President on October 6, 1997, regarding Public Law 105-45.

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.85): Restores military construction projects cancelled by presidential line-item veto.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Disapproves line-item vetoes to restore spending on military construction projects.

    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 (352)

Nay (64)

Not voting or present (18)

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