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Senate Roll Call 817, 95th Congress · June 27, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12930 BY STRIKING A PROVISION THAT PUTS A 5.5% CEILING ON SALARY INCREASES FOR FEDERAL BLUE-COLLAR PERSONNEL DURING FISCAL YEAR 1979.

21 yea · 69 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat10 yea · 43 nay
Republican11 yea · 25 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12930

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 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(0.90): Striking a salary increase ceiling permits higher pay and 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 (21)

Nay (69)

Not voting or present (10)

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