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House Roll Call 953, 95th Congress · May 9, 1978

TO AMEND H. CON. RES. 559 BY INCREASING FEDERAL REVENUE AND AUTHORIZATION LEVELS SO THAT REVENUES FROM THE PANAMA CANAL COMPANY MAY BE TRANSFERRED DIRECTLY TO THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.

231 yea · 170 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat113 yea · 154 nay
Republican121 yea · 20 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Transferring Panama Canal revenues directly to the Treasury is an accounting adjustment.

    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 (236)

Nay (175)

Not voting or present (23)

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