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House Roll Call 173, 94th Congress · May 21, 1975

TO AMEND H.R. 6950, MAKING LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL 1976, BY PROHIBITING FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT CERTAIN ORDERS OF THE COMM. ON HOUSE ADMINISTRATION THAT WOULD INCREASE MEMBERS ALLOWANCE FOR TRAVEL, STAFF AND OFFICE EXPENSES, AND NEWSLETTERS.

148 yea · 262 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 231 nay
Republican108 yea · 29 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6950 ↗

Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1976

Policy area: Congress — 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): Prohibiting spending for member allowance increases restrains legislative branch 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 (148)

Nay (262)

Not voting or present (23)

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