House Roll Call 258, 96th Congress · June 26, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 3930, THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT, BY STRIKING LANGUAGE STATING THAT THE TERMINATION OR REDUCTION OF AVAILABILITY OF PETROLEUM WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE NATIONAL DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS. (MOTION FAILED)

69 yea · 351 nay12 not voting or present

Democrat24 yea · 238 nay

Republican46 yea · 111 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3930 ↗

Defense Production Act Amendments 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.

Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.85): Striking defense preparedness language narrows the scope of military authority under Defense Production Act.
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 (70)

Nay (352)

Not voting or present (12)

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