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House Roll Call 1071, 95th Congress · June 7, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12930 BY RESTORING A $4.2 MILLION AUTHORIZATION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES OF THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS, AND BY STRIKING LANGUAGE BARRING THE USE OF FUNDS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTERIZED FIREARM REGULATION.

80 yea · 314 nay30 not voting or present
Democrat73 yea · 187 nay
Republican10 yea · 131 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12930

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1979

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.

  • GunsA yea counts toward “Gun restrictions”

    model(0.90): Restores funding for ATF enforcement and permits computerized firearm regulation implementation.

    Tagged by: keyword:firearm

    Axis: Gun restrictions ← → Gun rights

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Restores $4.2 million in agency funding, expanding 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 (84)

Nay (320)

Not voting or present (30)

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