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House Roll Call 806, 95th Congress · March 9, 1978

TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE MODIFIED SARASIN AMENDMENTS (SEE RC 125) TO H.R. 50. THE JEFFORDS AMENDMENT REQUIRES THE PRESIDENT TO INCLUDE GOALS FOR REASONABLE PRICE STABILITY IN HIS ANNUAL REPORTS BEGINNING THE THIRD YEAR AFTER ENACTMENT OF THE BILL, AND DEFINES PRICE STABILITY ACCORDING TO A GOAL OF 3% INFLATION TO BE REACHED FIVE YEARS AFTER ENACTMENT OF THE BILL.

198 yea · 223 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat55 yea · 220 nay
Republican142 yea · 3 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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 restraint”

    model(0.75): Reimposes a specific anti-inflation target, emphasizing fiscal restraint.

    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 (199)

Nay (224)

Not voting or present (11)

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