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House Roll Call 677, 97th Congress · September 21, 1982

TO AMEND H.R. 7072, A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPT. 30, 1983. THE WALKER AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM APPROPRIATIONS BE FOR ALL OF FISCAL YEAR 1983 RATHER THAN JUST THE PERIOD FROM OCT. 1, 1982, THROUGH JULY 15, 1983. (MOTION FAILED)

125 yea · 246 nay60 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 179 nay
Republican112 yea · 64 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7072

A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, 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 (0.80) Text is unclear whether altering funding duration expands or restrains net spending.

    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 (126)

Nay (246)

Not voting or present (60)

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