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House Roll Call 1006, 95th Congress · May 22, 1978

TO MODIFY THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT #6 TO H.R. 10729, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979 FOR CERTAIN MARITIME PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. THE MODIFYING MCCLOSKEY AMENDMENT WOULD RETAIN THE EXISTING AUTHORIZATION OF $7 BILLION FOR THE SHIP MORTGAGE GUARANTEE PROGRAM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. COMMITTEE AMENDMENT #6 RAISES THIS AUTHORIAZTION FROM $7 BILLION TO $10 BILLION.

126 yea · 241 nay50 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 200 nay
Republican83 yea · 49 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 10729 ↗

Maritime Appropriation Authorization Act

Policy area: Transportation and Public Works — 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): Keeping authorization at $7 billion instead of raising it to $10 billion exercises fiscal restraint.

    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 (134)

Nay (250)

Not voting or present (50)

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