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House Roll Call 807, 98th Congress · August 2, 1984

TO AGREE TO THE CONTE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5973, AS AMENDED BY THE RATCHFORD AMENDMENT. THE CONTE AMENDMENT SETS THE RECISSION LEVEL AT $10 BILLION IN EXISTING SYNTHETIC FUEL CORPORATION APPROPRIATIONS. THE RATCHFORD AMENDMENT SETS THE RECISSION LEVEL AT $5 BILLION INSTEAD OF $10 BILLION, AND PROHIBITS THE USE OF SYNFUEL FUNDS FOR UNION II OR CATHEDRAL BLUFFS OIL SHALE PROJECTS. (MOTION PASSED)

410 yea · 2 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat243 yea · 1 nay
Republican165 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5973 ↗

A bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, and for other purposes.

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(0.85): Adopting a $5 billion rescission reduces overall spending relative to existing appropriations.

    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 (411)

Nay (3)

Not voting or present (19)

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