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Senate Roll Call 734, 99th Congress · October 16, 1986

TO TABLE THE MELCHER, MT) AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 738, THE CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE THAT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE SHALL SELL NOTES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS HELD IN THE RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSURANCE FUND ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION 309A OF THE CONSOLIDATED FARM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT ACT IN SUCH AMOUNTS AS TO REALIZE NET PROCEEDS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF NOT LESS THAN $50,000,000.

47 yea · 45 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 40 nay
Republican42 yea · 5 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

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(0.75): Tabling an amendment requiring asset sales blocks realizing government proceeds.

    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 (47)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (8)

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