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House Roll Call 413, 95th Congress · July 20, 1977

TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 4975, THE BILL AMENDING THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT AND AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH IN FISCAL YEAR 1978.

401 yea · 6 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat266 yea · 1 nay
Republican135 yea · 5 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4975

An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to extend through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, the assistance programs for health services research; health statistics; comprehensive public health services; hypertension programs; migrant health; community health centers; medical libraries; cancer control programs; the National Cancer Institute; heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood disease prevention and control programs; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Research Service Awards; population research and voluntary family planning programs; sudden infant death syndrome; hemophilia; national health planning and development; and health resources development; to amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to extend it through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978; to extend the assistance programs for home health services; and for other purposes.

Policy area: Health — 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.

  • Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Authorizing funding for biomedical research does not directly expand or restrict health coverage scope.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Approving appropriations authorization for health programs expands federal fiscal 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 (404)

Nay (6)

Not voting or present (23)

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