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House Roll Call 1205, 96th Congress · September 30, 1980

TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 2597, AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STAFF, AND THE CIA RETIREMENT AND DISABILTY SYSTEM. (MOTION PASSED)

385 yea · 18 nay28 not voting or present
Democrat231 yea · 16 nay
Republican152 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2597

An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, for the Intelligence Community Staff, and for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.90): Authorizing intelligence activities and funding supports military and intelligence expansion.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Authorizing appropriations for intelligence activities increases authorized federal spending.

    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 (386)

Nay (18)

Not voting or present (28)

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