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Senate Roll Call 271, 99th Congress · November 1, 1985

TO AMEND HR 2965, A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE AND THE JUDICIARY, TO PROHIBIT U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FROM BEING USED TO ASSIST THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION.

90 yea · 2 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 0 nay
Republican48 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2965

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Prohibiting funds from being used for the PLO 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 (91)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (7)

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