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House Roll Call 131, 96th Congress · May 14, 1979

TO AMEND H. CON. RES. 107 BY INCREASING 1980 DEFENSE BUDGET AUTHORITY BY $1.7 BILLION AND OUTLAYS BY $59 MILLION. (MOTION FAILED)

188 yea · 209 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat73 yea · 182 nay
Republican121 yea · 32 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Con.Res. 107 ↗

A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 1980 and revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year 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(0.95): Increases defense budget authority and outlays.

    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 (195)

Nay (216)

Not voting or present (23)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.