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House Roll Call 95, 98th Congress · May 11, 1983

TO AMEND THE GONZALEZ SUBSTITUTE FOR THE WYLIE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1983. THE WALKER AMENDMENT PROHIBITS EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS IN VIOLATION OF THE BALANCED BUDGET PROVISIONS IN LAW. (MOTION FAILED)

157 yea · 254 nay20 not voting or present
Democrat18 yea · 227 nay
Republican138 yea · 26 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1983

Emergency Housing Assistance Act of 1983

Policy area: Housing and Community Development — 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): Prohibiting expenditures in violation of balanced budget law promotes fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget

    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 (157)

Nay (255)

Not voting or present (20)

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