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Senate Roll Call 393, 97th Congress · November 18, 1981

TO AMEND H.R.4169, A BILL APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1982 FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES. THE HELMS AMENDMENT, WITH REFERENCE TO THE LANGUAGE OF THE WEICKER AMENDMENT, PROVIDES THAT NOTHING SHALL BE INTERPRETED IN DEROGATION OF THE LIMITATION ON EXPENDITURES. THE WEICKER UNPRINTED AMENDMENT NO.632, ADOPTED ON NOVEMBER 17, PROVIDES THAT NOTHING IN THE ACT SHALL BE INTERPRETED AS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 17

58 yea · 38 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 25 nay
Republican37 yea · 13 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): Reaffirms limitations on expenditures, favoring fiscal restraint.

    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 (58)

Nay (38)

Not voting or present (4)

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