House Roll Call 1279, 95th Congress · August 7, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 13635 BY REDUCING ALL APPROPRIATIONS NOT REQUIRED BY LAW BY 2%.

53 yea · 327 nay45 not voting or present

Democrat44 yea · 206 nay

Republican11 yea · 123 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 13635 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1979

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.

Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.90): Cutting defense appropriations by 2% reduces military spending.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Cutting appropriations by 2% reduces federal 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 (56)

Nay (331)

Not voting or present (45)

Druie Douglas Barnard Jr.Did not vote
Max BaucusDid not vote
Anthony Charles BeilensonDid not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
George E. Brown Jr.Did not vote
Yvonne Brathwaite BurkeDid not vote
Manley Caldwell ButlerDid not vote
Bruce Faulkner CaputoDid not vote
William Lacy Clay Sr.Did not vote
Thad CochranDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Walter FlowersDid not vote
Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
Donald MacKay FraserDid not vote
Louis Frey Jr.Did not vote
George Vernon HansenDid not vote
Michael Joseph HarringtonDid not vote
Edgar Lanier JenkinsDid not vote
Robert Walter Kasten Jr.Did not vote
John J. LaFalceDid not vote
Joseph Anthony LeFanteDid not vote
James Robert MannDid not vote
Marvin Dawson MathisDid not vote
Dale MilfordDid not vote
John Michael MurphyDid not vote
Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
Albert Harold QuieDid not vote
Thomas Fisher RailsbackDid not vote
John Jacob RhodesDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
Teno RoncalioDid not vote
Philip Edward RuppeDid not vote
Harold Samuel SawyerDid not vote
George Edward ShipleyDid not vote
Bernice Frederic SiskDid not vote
Ike SkeltonDid not vote
Thomas Jefferson SteedDid not vote
Olin Earl TeagueDid not vote
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr.Did not vote
Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote
Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
John Andrew YoungDid not vote

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