House Roll Call 164, 96th Congress · June 5, 1979

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 4015, THE VETERAN SENIOR CITIZEN HEALTH CARE ACT OF 1979, ESTABLISHING DEMONSTRATION CENTERS OF GERIATRIC RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND CLINICAL OPERATIONS WITHIN THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION. (MOTION PASSED:2/3 REQUIRED)

406 yea · 0 nay27 not voting or present

Democrat249 yea · 0 nay

Republican155 yea · 0 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4015 ↗

Veteran Senior Citizen Health Care Act of 1979

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.

Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”
model(0.95): Establishes demonstration centers for veterans' geriatric health research and clinical care.
Tagged by: keyword:health care
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Concerns veterans' geriatric health care rather than military capabilities or war powers.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (407)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (27)

John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Anthony Charles BeilensonDid not vote
John Lowell BurtonDid not vote
John Joseph CavanaughDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
Charles Francis DoughertyDid not vote
Geraldine Anne FerraroDid not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
William David FordDid not vote
Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
Richard Andrew GephardtDid not vote
William Herbert Gray IIIDid not vote
Harold Terry JohnsonDid not vote
Jerry Mumford PattersonDid not vote
Peter A. PeyserDid not vote
Carl Duane PursellDid not vote
Charles B. RangelDid not vote
William Howard RoyerDid not vote
Gladys Noon SpellmanDid not vote
Bennett McVey StewartDid not vote
Samuel Studdiford StrattonDid not vote
Robert StumpDid not vote
William M. ThomasDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote
C. W. Bill YoungDid not vote
Don YoungDid not vote

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