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Senate Roll Call 998, 96th Congress · November 25, 1980

TO APPEAL A RULING OF THE CHAIR SUSTAINING METZENBAUM POINT OF ORDER THAT MCCLURE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 7591 WAS LEGISLATION ON AN APPROPRIATIONS BILL AND NOT IN ORDER. SEE RC 491. (MOTION PASSED; CHAIR WAS OVERRULED)

33 yea · 49 nay17 not voting or present
Democrat32 yea · 14 nay
Republican1 yea · 35 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7591

A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies programs for fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and for other purposes.

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 (0.95) Procedural vote appealing a ruling of the chair on a point of order.

    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 (34)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (17)

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