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House Roll Call 272, 99th Congress · September 11, 1985

TO AMEND A PRIOR SUBSTITUTE TO A PRIOR AMENDMENT TO H R 3244 BY REQUIRING TOUGHER RESTRICTIONS ON FUNDS USED FOR THE LOS ANGELES SUBWAY PROJECT. THE AMENDMENT REQUIRES THAT THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT CREATE AN INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE THAT WOULD ASSURE THAT THE SUBWAY TUNNELING WOULD AVOID DANGEROUS POCKETS OF METHANE GAS. (MOTION FAILED)

172 yea · 242 nay17 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 217 nay
Republican152 yea · 26 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3244 ↗

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Adding safety requirements to a subway project is non-fiscal.

    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 (173)

Nay (244)

Not voting or present (17)

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