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Senate Roll Call 350, 97th Congress · November 3, 1981

TO AMEND H.R.4209, A BILL APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR FISCAL 1982 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, TO STRIKE THE LANGUAGE WHICH STATES THAT THE CORPORATION (AMTRAK) SHALL PROVIDE RAIL SERVICE BETWEN WASHINGTON,D.C. AND CHICAGO VIA CINCINNATI. (MOTION FAILED).

34 yea · 53 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 38 nay
Republican31 yea · 16 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4209

Department of Transportation 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Striking a required Amtrak rail service route reduces mandated operational expenditures.

    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 (54)

Not voting or present (12)

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