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House Roll Call 53, 99th Congress · April 22, 1985

TO PASS H R 1617, A BILL AUTHORIZING $143.9 MILLION IN APPROPRIATIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR THE PROGRAMS OF THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS FOR FISCAL YEARS 1986 AND 1987. (MOTION PASSED)

282 yea · 103 nay43 not voting or present
Democrat210 yea · 5 nay
Republican72 yea · 101 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1617

National Bureau of Standards Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986

Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications — 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): Passing the bill authorizes $143.9 million in spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (284)

Nay (106)

Not voting or present (43)

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