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House Roll Call 180, 97th Congress · September 9, 1981

TO AMEND H.R. 4169, THE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPT. 30, 1982, BY PREVENTING THE USE OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FUNDS TO REQUIRE, REQUEST, OR RECOMMEND, IN CONNECTION WITH ANY CAUSE OF ACTION THAT IS OR MAY BE BROUGHT FOR VIOLATION OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT OF 1968. (MOTION FAILED)

188 yea · 202 nay42 not voting or present
Democrat63 yea · 146 nay
Republican126 yea · 55 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4169

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982

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) A limitation rider on Fair Housing Act enforcement is a policy debate, not fiscal.

    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 (189)

Nay (202)

Not voting or present (42)

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