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House Roll Call 13, 99th Congress · February 26, 1985

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H R 1096, A BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FAMINE RELIEF AND RECOVERY IN AFRICA. (MOTION PASSED)

391 yea · 25 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat237 yea · 0 nay
Republican154 yea · 26 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1096 ↗

African Famine Relief and Recovery Act of 1985

Policy area: International Affairs — 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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Authorizing funding for famine relief increases 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 (394)

Nay (26)

Not voting or present (12)

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