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House Roll Call 1494, 95th Congress · October 12, 1978

TO RECEDE AND CONCUR, WITH AMENDMENT, IN SENATE AMENDMENT #16 TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 12929. THE ADOPTED AMENDMENT ESTABLISHES 788 FULL-TIME PERMANENT POSITIONS IN THE NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE.

385 yea · 11 nay32 not voting or present
Democrat258 yea · 3 nay
Republican126 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12929 ↗

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Act, 1979

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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Establishes 788 new permanent federal positions, expanding government spending.

    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 (387)

Nay (11)

Not voting or present (32)

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