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House Roll Call 968, 105th Congress · July 29, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE HINCHEY AMENDMENT, NUMBERED 22 AND PRINTED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD THAT SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FUNDING TO IMPLEMENT THE VETERANS EQUITABLE RESOURCE ALLOCATION (VERA) SYSTEM.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

146 yea · 285 nayFailed3 not voting or present
Democrat84 yea · 118 nay
Republican61 yea · 167 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4194

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) This concerns funding allocation criteria for veterans' resources, not overall spending levels.

    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 (146)

Nay (285)

Not voting or present (3)

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