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Senate Roll Call 1020, 95th Congress · September 21, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12931, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FOREIGN AID PROGRAMS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979, BY STRIKING LANGUAGE THAT BARS THE USE OF THESE FUNDS FOR A U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY.

30 yea · 37 nay31 not voting or present
Democrat23 yea · 23 nay
Republican8 yea · 14 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12931

Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1979

Policy area: International Affairs — 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(0.90): Striking language that prohibits funding allows spending for UN University contributions.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (31)

Nay (38)

Not voting or present (31)

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