House Roll Call 19, 96th Congress · March 6, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2439, A BILL THAT RESCINDS CERTAIN BUDGET AUTHORITY, BY RESCINDING A $37 MILLION APPROPRIATION TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH. (MOTION PASSED)

290 yea · 114 nay27 not voting or present

Democrat157 yea · 97 nay

Republican133 yea · 15 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2439 ↗

A bill to rescind certain budget authority contained in the message of the President of January 31, 1979 (H. Doc. 96-46), transmitted pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

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 restraint”
model(0.95): Rescinding an appropriation reduces federal spending.
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 (291)

Nay (114)

Not voting or present (27)

John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Les AuCoinDid not vote
Edward Peter BeardDid not vote
Mario BiaggiDid not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
Jack Thomas BrinkleyDid not vote
John Hall Buchanan Jr.Did not vote
John Lowell BurtonDid not vote
Robert Lawrence CoughlinDid not vote
Philip M. CraneDid not vote
William Edwin DannemeyerDid not vote
Marvin Henry EdwardsDid not vote
Glenn Lee English Jr.Did not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Barry Morris Goldwater Jr.Did not vote
Thomas Michael HagedornDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
Walter Beaman Jones Sr.Did not vote
Anthony Claude Leach Jr.Did not vote
Trent LottDid not vote
Stewart Brett McKinneyDid not vote
Claude Denson PepperDid not vote
John Jacob RhodesDid not vote
Allan Byron SwiftDid not vote
Jerome Bob TraxlerDid not vote
Wes WatkinsDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote

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