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House Roll Call 101, 99th Congress · May 14, 1985

TO AMEND THE JONES SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT FOR H R 1157 WITH A PERFECTING AMENDMENT. H R 1157 AUTHORIZES $416.9 MILLION IN APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1986 FOR CERTAIN MARITIME PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION. THE JONES SUBSTITUTE PROVIDES THAT NO FUNDS CAN EXCEED THE 1985 AMOUNTS FOR PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS OF THE MARITIME ADMINISTRATION AND THE FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION. THIS SUBSTITUTE ALSO PROVIDES THAT THIS PROVISION SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED TO INCREASE ANY OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS IN THE BILL. THE WALKER AMENDMENT REDUCES AUTHORIZED FUNDS BY TEN PERCENTUM. (MOTION FAILED)

100 yea · 318 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat8 yea · 229 nay
Republican92 yea · 88 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1157 ↗

A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1986 for certain maritime programs of the Department of Transportation and the Federal Maritime Commission.

Policy area: Transportation and Public Works — 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): Cutting authorized funds by 10 percent reduces government spending.

    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 (100)

Nay (320)

Not voting or present (14)

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