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House Roll Call 98, 95th Congress · March 31, 1977

TO PASS H.R. 4975, A BILL AMENDING THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978 FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND RELATED RESEARCH PROJECTS.

385 yea · 4 nay42 not voting or present
Democrat251 yea · 2 nay
Republican133 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4975

An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to extend through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, the assistance programs for health services research; health statistics; comprehensive public health services; hypertension programs; migrant health; community health centers; medical libraries; cancer control programs; the National Cancer Institute; heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood disease prevention and control programs; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Research Service Awards; population research and voluntary family planning programs; sudden infant death syndrome; hemophilia; national health planning and development; and health resources development; to amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to extend it through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978; to extend the assistance programs for home health services; and for other purposes.

Policy area: Health — 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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.90): Appropriates funds for biomedical research and public health service programs.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

Who voted which way

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

Yea (386)

Nay (4)

Not voting or present (42)

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