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House Roll Call 840, 95th Congress · March 16, 1978

TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT OFFERED IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR H.R. 50. THE QUIE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT SETS NATIONAL GOALS OF 4% UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG AMERICANS AGE 16 TO 19, OF 3% UNEMPLOYEMNT AMONG AMERICANS AGE 20 AND OVER, AND OF NO MORE THAN 3% ANNUAL INCREASE IN INFLATION.

137 yea · 276 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat11 yea · 269 nay
Republican130 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): Substitute focuses on anti-inflation limits and restrictive targets over spending expansion.

    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 (143)

Nay (282)

Not voting or present (9)

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