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House Roll Call 719, 95th Congress · January 30, 1978

TO PASS H.R. 5798, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE OFFICE OF RAIL PUBLIC COUNSEL FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978.

318 yea · 44 nay67 not voting or present
Democrat229 yea · 12 nay
Republican89 yea · 33 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5798

A bill to amend the Interstate Commerce Act to authorize appropriations for the Office of Rail Public Counsel for fiscal year 1978.

Policy area: Transportation and Public Works — 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): Authorizes funding for the Office of Rail Public Counsel.

    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 (320)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (67)

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