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Senate Roll Call 915, 95th Congress · August 3, 1978

TO TABLE THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT TO H.R. 12934, A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL 1979 FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE, JUSTICE, COMMERCE AND THE JUDICIARY. THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT WOULD INCREASE THE APPROPRIATIONS FOR POSITIONS IN THE CRIMINAL DIVISION OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.

36 yea · 49 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat11 yea · 41 nay
Republican26 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that would increase Justice Department funding blocks a spending increase.

    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 (38)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (13)

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