House Roll Call 928, 95th Congress · May 1, 1978

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H. J. RES. 816, THE BILL EXTENDING UNTIL APR. 30, 1979, THE AUTHORITY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE TO PURCHASE UP TO $5 BILLION IN U.S. PUBLIC DEBT OBLIGATIONS FROM THE TREASURY.

278 yea · 77 nay75 not voting or present

Democrat224 yea · 9 nay

Republican56 yea · 67 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 816 ↗

A resolution to extend the authority of the Federal Reserve banks to buy and sell certain obligations.

Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector — 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.

Financial RegulationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Extending Fed debt purchase authority does not adjust financial regulation of private entities.
Tagged by: policy-area:Finance and Financial Sector
Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (282)

Nay (77)

Not voting or present (75)

Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr.Did not vote
Ike Franklin AndrewsDid not vote
William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
Alvin James BaldusDid not vote
Corinne Claiborne BoggsDid not vote
Don Leroy BonkerDid not vote
David Reece BowenDid not vote
John Bayne BreckinridgeDid not vote
John Hall Buchanan Jr.Did not vote
Yvonne Brathwaite BurkeDid not vote
Omar Truman BurlesonDid not vote
Charles Joseph CarneyDid not vote
John Joseph CavanaughDid not vote
Donald Holst ClausenDid not vote
Thad CochranDid not vote
William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Ronald Vernie DellumsDid not vote
John Herman DentDid not vote
Norman D. DicksDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
Robert Christian EckhardtDid not vote
Joshua EilbergDid not vote
John Neal ErlenbornDid not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Donald MacKay FraserDid not vote
Louis Frey Jr.Did not vote
Robert Alton GammageDid not vote
Robert GarciaDid not vote
William F. GoodlingDid not vote
Vonno Lamar Gudger Jr.Did not vote
William Howard HarshaDid not vote
Margaret M. HecklerDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
Henry John HydeDid not vote
James Paul JohnsonDid not vote
Walter Beaman Jones Sr.Did not vote
Abraham Kazen Jr.Did not vote
Robert Charles KruegerDid not vote
Joseph Anthony LeFanteDid not vote
Robert Louis LeggettDid not vote
Robert Linligthgow Livingston Jr.Did not vote
Clarence Dickinson LongDid not vote
Manuel Luján Jr.Did not vote
James Robert MannDid not vote
Lloyd MeedsDid not vote
Joseph George MinishDid not vote
Robert Homer MollohanDid not vote
John Emerson MossDid not vote
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr.Did not vote
Mary Rose OakarDid not vote
Shirley Neil PettisDid not vote
Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
Carl Duane PursellDid not vote
Albert Harold QuieDid not vote
John Jacob RhodesDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
Teno RoncalioDid not vote
Benjamin Stanley RosenthalDid not vote
Harold Lowell RunnelsDid not vote
Philip Edward RuppeDid not vote
George Edward ShipleyDid not vote
Gladys Noon SpellmanDid not vote
David Alan StockmanDid not vote
Samuel Studdiford StrattonDid not vote
Robert StumpDid not vote
Olin Earl TeagueDid not vote
Charles ThoneDid not vote
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr.Did not vote
James (Jim) Guy Tucker Jr.Did not vote
William Creed WamplerDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote
James Howard WeaverDid not vote
Charles Orville WhitleyDid not vote

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