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House Roll Call 1474, 95th Congress · October 4, 1978

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS, AS AMENDED, H.R. 12917, THE BILL ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY RURAL TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS.

352 yea · 49 nay30 not voting or present
Democrat246 yea · 16 nay
Republican103 yea · 34 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12917

A bill directing the Secretary of Agriculture to compile and publish certain information relating to the adequacy of a transportation system to meet the needs of agriculture and rural development in the United States, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 (0.80) Establishing a study task force is a policy study, not significant fiscal expansion.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (352)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (30)

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