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House Roll Call 142, 99th Congress · June 12, 1985

TO AMEND H R 2577 TO PROVIDE $27 MILLION IN HUMANITARIAN AID FOR NICARAGUAN DEMOCRATIC RESISTENCE TO BE ALLOCATED IN THREE EQUAL INSTALLMENTS BY A UNITED STATES AGENCY OTHER THAN THE C.I.A. OR THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, AND TO AUTHORIZE $2 MILLION TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONTADORA AGREEMENT. (MOTION PASSED)

248 yea · 184 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat68 yea · 175 nay
Republican179 yea · 7 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2577 ↗

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1985

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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): A yes vote provides $29 million in humanitarian and peace implementation aid.

    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 (248)

Nay (184)

Not voting or present (1)

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