House Roll Call 175, 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 REFERENCES TO THE TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE STATEMENT OF PURPOSES FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY. (MOTION PASSED)

267 yea · 136 nay25 not voting or present

Democrat163 yea · 80 nay

Republican106 yea · 56 nay

Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Striking references to political parties in an endowment's purpose does not alter spending levels.
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 (269)

Nay (138)

Not voting or present (25)

Anthony Charles BeilensonDid not vote
Edward Patrick BolandDid not vote
Richard Bruce CheneyDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Joseph Daniel EarlyDid not vote
Hamilton Fish Jr.Did not vote
Harold Eugene FordDid not vote
William David FordDid not vote
William Herbert Gray IIIDid not vote
George Vernon HansenDid not vote
Thomas Forbes HartnettDid not vote
Cecil Landau HeftelDid not vote
Carroll Hubbard Jr.Did not vote
James M. JeffordsDid not vote
Ed JonesDid not vote
Joseph Paul KolterDid not vote
Tom LantosDid not vote
Marilyn Laird LloydDid not vote
Matthew G. MartínezDid not vote
Nicholas James MavroulesDid not vote
Ron PaulDid not vote
Carl Duane PursellDid not vote
Ralph RegulaDid not vote
Lyle WilliamsDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote

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