House Roll Call 602, 95th Congress · October 13, 1977

TO PASS H.R. 8309, A BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR A NEW LOCKS AND DAM ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, AND MAKING OTHER CHANGES EFFECTING THE INLAND WATERWAY SYSTEM.

331 yea · 70 nay29 not voting or present

Democrat216 yea · 54 nay

Republican114 yea · 18 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8309 ↗

A bill authorizing certain public works on rivers for navigation.

Policy area: Environmental Protection — 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.

Climate & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Waterway infrastructure appropriations do not clearly align with climate action or fossil fuel priority.
Tagged by: policy-area:Environmental Protection
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Authorizing appropriations for locks and dams increases federal 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 (333)

Nay (72)

Not voting or present (29)

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