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House Roll Call 839, 95th Congress · March 16, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 50 BY TERMINATING THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT ON SEPT. 30, 1983, UNLESS AN EXTENSION OF THE PROVISIONS IS OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS.

196 yea · 216 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat69 yea · 211 nay
Republican129 yea · 8 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(0.90): Sunsetting the spending provisions on a fixed date limits future government 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 (200)

Nay (220)

Not voting or present (14)

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