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House Roll Call 672, 98th Congress · May 31, 1984

TO AMEND H.R. 5712, A BILL APPROPRIATING $11.89 BILLION FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPT. 30, 1985. THE OTTINGER AMENDMENT STRIKES THE $31.3 MILLION APPROPRIATION FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY. (MOTION PASSED)

226 yea · 173 nay30 not voting or present
Democrat137 yea · 104 nay
Republican90 yea · 70 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5712 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985

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(0.95): A yes vote strikes funding for the National Endowment for Democracy.

    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 (227)

Nay (176)

Not voting or present (30)

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