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House Roll Call 656, 99th Congress · July 23, 1986

TO AMEND HR 5162, TO REDUCE THE FUNDING FOR THE NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL FUND BY $291.2 MILLION, ELIMINATING STUDY OF POTENTIAL NUCLEAR-WASTE REPOSITORY SITING IN WASHINGTON STATE, NEVADA AND TEXAS.

68 yea · 351 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 187 nay
Republican20 yea · 161 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5162

Energy and Water Development Appropriation Act, 1987

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): Reducing funding by $291.2 million cuts spending.

    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 (68)

Nay (351)

Not voting or present (11)

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