House Roll Call 1458, 95th Congress · September 28, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12005, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979, BY REQUIRING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES THROUGH WHICH HE COULD ADVISE THE PRESIDENT ON THE MERIT SELECTION OF FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGES.

206 yea · 151 nay35 not voting or present

Democrat95 yea · 159 nay

Republican128 yea · 12 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12005 ↗

Department of Justice Appropriation Authorization 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Judicial merit selection procedures amendment is a policy rule, not a spending measure.
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 (226)

Nay (171)

Not voting or present (35)

Joseph Scofield AmmermanDid not vote
William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
Alvin James BaldusDid not vote
Edward Peter BeardDid not vote
Bruce Faulkner CaputoDid not vote
Norman Edward D’AmoursDid not vote
Mendel Jackson DavisDid not vote
Joseph Daniel EarlyDid not vote
Marvin Henry EdwardsDid not vote
Donald MacKay FraserDid not vote
Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr.Did not vote
Michael Joseph HarringtonDid not vote
Kenneth Lamar HollandDid not vote
Andrew Poysell IrelandDid not vote
Jack French KempDid not vote
Raymond Francis LedererDid not vote
Marvin Dawson MathisDid not vote
Mike McCormackDid not vote
Lloyd MeedsDid not vote
Dale MilfordDid not vote
Joseph George MinishDid not vote
John Emerson MossDid not vote
Lucien Norbert NedziDid not vote
Shirley Neil PettisDid not vote
Otis Grey PikeDid not vote
William Robert PoageDid not vote
Albert Harold QuieDid not vote
Theodore Marshall RisenhooverDid not vote
Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
Bernice Frederic SiskDid not vote
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr.Did not vote
Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote
James Claude Wright Jr.Did not vote
John Andrew YoungDid not vote

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