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House Roll Call 224, 99th Congress · July 23, 1985

TO AMEND H R 8, A BILL APPROPRIATING $21 BILLION OVER 5 YEARS IN GRANTS AND LOANS FOR LOCAL SEWAGE TREATMENT, TO ALLOW UP TO 40 LOCALITIES TO DESIGN AND OPERATE THEIR OWN PROGRAMS FOR TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE, PROVIDED THAT THE LOCAL PROJECTS ARE AS EFFICIENT AS EPA PROGRAMS. (MOTION FAILED)

167 yea · 257 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat22 yea · 214 nay
Republican145 yea · 40 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8 ↗

Water Quality Renewal Act of 1985

Policy area: Environmental Protection — 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.

  • Climate & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Local sewage treatment management does not map directly to climate action versus fossil fuels.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Environmental Protection

    Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority

Who voted which way

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

Yea (167)

Nay (257)

Not voting or present (9)

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