House Roll Call 100, 99th Congress · May 14, 1985

TO AMEND H R 1784, A BILL AUTHORIZING $436.78 MILLION IN APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1986 FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE PANAMA CANAL. THE WALKER AMENDMENT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT THE FISCAL YEAR 1986 EXPENDITURES OF THE PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION BE FROZEN AT 1985 LEVELS AND THAT ALL POSSIBLE STEPS BE TAKEN TO ASSURE THAT ANY SAVINGS RESULTING FROM THIS ACTION ACCRUE TO THE GENERAL FUNDS OF THE TREASURY. (MOTION PASSED)

241 yea · 173 nay18 not voting or present

Democrat72 yea · 162 nay

Republican169 yea · 10 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1784 ↗

Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1986

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 restraint”
model(0.95): Freezing expenditures at previous levels is a fiscal restraint measure.
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 (242)

Nay (174)

Not voting or present (18)

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