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Senate Roll Call 15, 98th Congress · March 10, 1983

TO TABLE THE HATFIELD AMENDMENT TO THE ABDNOR AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1718. THE ABDNOR AMENDMENT MAKES ALL STATES ELIGIBLE FOR LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT AID. THE HATFIELD AMENDMENT ESTABLISHES A THREE-TIER SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS TO THE STATES. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 1

49 yea · 50 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 28 nay
Republican30 yea · 22 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1718 ↗

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Tabling an amendment altering unemployment benefit distribution formulas is a policy formula vote.

    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 (49)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (1)

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