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House Roll Call 1200, 95th Congress · July 19, 1978

TO PASS H.R. 11983, THE BILL AMENDING THE FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN ACT OF 1971 IN ORDER TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION IN FISCAL YEAR 1979.

366 yea · 37 nay27 not voting or present
Democrat252 yea · 14 nay
Republican113 yea · 23 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 11983 ↗

A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to extend the authorization of appropriations contained in such Act.

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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Authorizing appropriations for federal agency operations expands government 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 (368)

Nay (37)

Not voting or present (27)

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