House Roll Call 1475, 95th Congress · October 4, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 14042, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979, BY REQUIRING TWO-HOUSE APPROVAL OF CONTRACT CLAIMS IN EXCESS OF $25 MILLION THAT ARE MADE UNDER PL 85-804.

111 yea · 275 nay38 not voting or present

Democrat94 yea · 164 nay

Republican19 yea · 115 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 14042 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act

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(0.80): Requires congressional oversight on large defense contract claims, restraining executive defense contracting authority.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Adds two-house approval requirements for large claims, placing controls on 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 (115)

Nay (279)

Not voting or present (38)

John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Douglas Earl ApplegateDid not vote
William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
Michael Thomas BlouinDid not vote
Don Leroy BonkerDid not vote
Yvonne Brathwaite BurkeDid not vote
Bruce Faulkner CaputoDid not vote
Charles Joseph CarneyDid not vote
William Lacy Clay Sr.Did not vote
Thad CochranDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
James Joseph DelaneyDid not vote
William Louis DickinsonDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Robert Christian EckhardtDid not vote
Frank Edward EvansDid not vote
William David FordDid not vote
Michael Joseph HarringtonDid not vote
Margaret M. HecklerDid not vote
Andrew Poysell IrelandDid not vote
James M. JeffordsDid not vote
Jack French KempDid not vote
Manuel Luján Jr.Did not vote
Lloyd MeedsDid not vote
Dale MilfordDid not vote
George MillerDid not vote
John Emerson MossDid not vote
Claude Denson PepperDid not vote
Shirley Neil PettisDid not vote
George Edward ShipleyDid not vote
Bernice Frederic SiskDid not vote
Joe SkubitzDid not vote
John Mark Slack Jr.Did not vote
Virginia Dodd SmithDid not vote
Charles ThoneDid not vote
Jerome Bob TraxlerDid not vote
Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote

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