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House Roll Call 149, 99th Congress · June 18, 1985

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H R 2290, A BILL AMENDING THE ORPHAN DRUG PROVISIONS OF THE FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT AND RELATED LAWS. (MOTION PASSED;2/3 REQUIRED) (S. 1147, A SIMILAR SENATE-PASSED BILL, WAS PASSED IN LIEU AFTER BEING AMENDED TO CONTAIN THE LANGUAGE OF THE HOUSE BILL AS PASSED.)

413 yea · 0 nay18 not voting or present
Democrat233 yea · 0 nay
Republican180 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2290

Orphan Drug Amendments of 1985

Policy area: Health — 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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.90): A yes vote expands orphan drug provisions to improve treatment access.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (415)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (18)

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