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House Roll Call 972, 105th Congress · July 29, 1998

VA-HUD Appropriations Act for FY 1999 — (HOUSE REJECTED THE OBEY MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK WITH AN AMENDMENT THAT STRIKES LANGUAGE PROHIBITING RULEMAKING BY THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION (CPSC) ON CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF UPHOLSTERY FABRICS AND STRIKES SECTION 425, ADOPTED BY THE RULE, THAT REQUIRES THE CPSC TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON THE TOXICITY OF FLAME RETARDANT CHEMICALS AND ESTALISH A CHRONIC HAZARD ADVISORY PANEL.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

164 yea · 261 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat159 yea · 38 nay
Republican4 yea · 223 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 motion concerns regulatory policy on Consumer Product Safety Commission rules, not spending totals.

    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 (164)

Nay (261)

Not voting or present (9)

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