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House Roll Call 1217, 96th Congress · October 1, 1980

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 1159, AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL TRAFFIC AND MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY ACT OF 1966 AND THE MOTOR VEHICLE INFORMATION AND COST SAVINGS ACT. (MOTION FAILED; 2/3 REQUIRED)

209 yea · 192 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat192 yea · 57 nay
Republican22 yea · 139 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1159 ↗

A bill to authorize appropriations for the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 and the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Transportation and Public Works — 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(0.95): Authorizing appropriations permits increased 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 (217)

Nay (196)

Not voting or present (19)

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