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House Roll Call 937, 95th Congress · May 3, 1978

TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT OFFERED IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE MITCHELL (MD) AMENDMENT (SEE RC 276) TO H. CON. RES. 559. THE STRATTON AMENDMENT WOULD INCREASE THE BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE BY $2.4 BILLION.

142 yea · 262 nay24 not voting or present
Democrat71 yea · 197 nay
Republican73 yea · 66 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Con.Res. 559 ↗

A resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 1979.

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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Increasing defense budget authority by $2.4 billion expands 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 (145)

Nay (265)

Not voting or present (24)

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