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House Roll Call 16, 98th Congress · March 3, 1983

TO AMEND H.R. 1718 BY PROVIDING THAT 75 PERCENT OF THE FUNDING FOR JOB CREATION IN THE BILL MUST BE SPENT IN CIVIL JURISDICTIONS THAT HAVE HAD UNEMPLOYMENT RATES AVERAGING AT LEAST 90 PERCENT OF THE AVERAGE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE LAST 12 MONTHS. (MOTION PASSED)

335 yea · 83 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat210 yea · 44 nay
Republican123 yea · 39 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1718

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983

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 (0.85) Altering the allocation rules for existing job creation funding does not clearly alter overall budget levels.

    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 (336)

Nay (83)

Not voting or present (14)

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