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House Roll Call 1078, 95th Congress · June 8, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12929, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, AND OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979. THE MICHEL AMENDMENT REDUCES THE APPROPRIATION FOR HEW BY $1 BILLION.

290 yea · 87 nay52 not voting or present
Democrat160 yea · 83 nay
Republican130 yea · 6 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12929

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare 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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.95): Reduces HEW appropriations by $1 billion.

    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 (292)

Nay (90)

Not voting or present (52)

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