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House Roll Call 805, 95th Congress · March 9, 1978

TO MODIFY THE SARASIN AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 50. THE WRIGHT AMENDMENTS REQUIRE THE PRESIDENT TO INCLUDE GOALS FOR REASONABLE PRICE STABILITY IN HIS ANNUAL ECONOMIC REPORTS, BEGINNING THE THIRD YEAR AFTER ENACTMENT OF THE BILL. THE ORIGINAL SARASIN AMENDMENTS SET A SHORT-TERM GOAL OF 3% INFLATION WITHIN FIVE YEARS, A LONG-TERM GOAL OF NO INFLATION, AND PROHIBIT THE PRESIDENT FROM RECOMMENDING WAGE AND PRICE CONTROLS.

277 yea · 143 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat265 yea · 10 nay
Republican12 yea · 132 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 50 ↗

Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978

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(0.75): Softens strict anti-inflation mandates, favoring expansionary economic policy.

    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 (278)

Nay (144)

Not voting or present (12)

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