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House Roll Call 335, 98th Congress · September 22, 1983

TO AMEND H.R. 3913 WITH A MODIFIED AMENDMENT. H.R. 3913 APPROPRIATES $96.16 BILLION IN FUNDS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH, AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPT. 30, 1984. THE WRIGHT AMENDMENT INCREASES APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS: TRAINING, AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES BY $100 MILLION; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES BY $25 MILLION; BILINGUAL EDUCATION BY $4 MILLION; EDUCATION FOR THE HANDICAPPED BY $45 MILLION; PELL GRANTS BY $116 MILLION; AND HIGHER EDUCATION BY $10 MILLION. THE MODIFIED AMENDMENT WOULD HAVE DISTRIBUTED $400 MILLION OVER THESE PROGRAMS RATHER THAN $300 MILLION WHICH IS THE CURRENT TOTAL OF THESE INCREASES. (MOTION PASSED)

302 yea · 111 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat245 yea · 8 nay
Republican57 yea · 106 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3913 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1984

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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Increasing appropriations across social and education programs by $100 million constitutes fiscal expansion.

    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 (305)

Nay (114)

Not voting or present (14)

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