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House Roll Call 835, 95th Congress · March 16, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 50 BY PROVIDING THAT THE UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ACT SHALL NOT INCLUDE PERSONS UNEMPLOYED BECAUSE OF STRIKES, PERSONS SEEKING PART-TIME WORK, PERSONS WHO VOLUNTARILY LEFT THEIR OLD JOBS OR ARE WITHOLDING FROM ACCEPTING AN AWAITING JOB, AND PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN UNEMPLOYED FOR LESS THAN FOUR WEEKS.

199 yea · 204 nay21 not voting or present
Democrat74 yea · 196 nay
Republican128 yea · 12 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(0.85): Narrowing unemployment statistics limits triggering federal full employment spending.

    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 (204)

Nay (209)

Not voting or present (21)

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