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House Roll Call 174, 98th Congress · June 9, 1983

TO AMEND H.R. 2915, A BILL AUTHORIZING $3.289 BILLION AND $3.59 BILLION IN APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEARS 1984 AND 1985, RESPECTIVELY, FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY, AND THE ASIA FOUNDATION. H.R. 2915 ALSO ESTABLISHES THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY, A PRIVATE, NONPROFIT CORPORATION WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE U.S. PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION IN DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT OVERSEAS. THE BROWN AMENDMENT STRIKES LANGUAGE ESTABLISHING THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY. (MOTION FAILED)

194 yea · 215 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat102 yea · 144 nay
Republican94 yea · 71 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2915 ↗

A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Asia Foundation, to establish the National Endowment for Democracy, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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(0.95): Striking language establishing an endowment eliminates authorized federal spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (196)

Nay (217)

Not voting or present (19)

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