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House Roll Call 261, 96th Congress · June 26, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 3930, THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT, BY STRIKING LANGUAGE AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT TO REQUIRE SUPPLIERS TO PROVIDE THE GOVERNMENT WITH SYNTHETIC FUELS IN CASES WHICH HE DEEMS NECESSARY TO MEET NATIONAL DEFENSE NEEDS. (MOTION FAILED)

127 yea · 263 nay30 not voting or present
Democrat118 yea · 127 nay
Republican16 yea · 140 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 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 presidential authority to mandate synthetic fuel procurement restricts military emergency authority.

    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 (135)

Nay (269)

Not voting or present (30)

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