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House Roll Call 1412, 95th Congress · September 19, 1978

TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 12598, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AGENCY, THE BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING AND RELATED PROGRAMS.

240 yea · 153 nay32 not voting or present
Democrat190 yea · 72 nay
Republican52 yea · 84 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12598 ↗

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1979

Policy area: International Affairs — 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(0.90): Authorizing appropriations for state department programs 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 (244)

Nay (156)

Not voting or present (32)

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