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House Roll Call 221, 99th Congress · July 18, 1985

TO AMEND H R 2942 TO REDUCE THE APPROPRIATION FOR BOOKS FOR THE BLIND AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED BY $103,000. (MOTION PASSED)

216 yea · 193 nay24 not voting or present
Democrat71 yea · 162 nay
Republican144 yea · 29 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2942

Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1986

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 restraint”

    model(0.95): Reduces appropriations for books for the blind.

    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 (216)

Nay (193)

Not voting or present (24)

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