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House Roll Call 1186, 95th Congress · July 17, 1978

TO RECOMMIT H.R. 12163 TO THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORTHWITH WITH AN AMENDMENT AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY TO COMPLETE ONLY THE SYSTEM DESIGN AND COMPONENT TESTING FOR THE CLINCH RIVER BREEDER REACTOR PROJECT. H.R. 12163 IS THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FOR ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979.

157 yea · 238 nay24 not voting or present
Democrat139 yea · 134 nay
Republican23 yea · 109 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12163 ↗

A bill to authorize appropriations to the Department of Energy in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, section 305 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, section 16 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974, and section 660 of the Department of Energy Reorganization Act, for energy research and development, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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(0.90): Recommits bill with instructions to restrict Clinch River Breeder Reactor spending and scope.

    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 (163)

Nay (245)

Not voting or present (24)

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