House Roll Call 269, 96th Congress · June 27, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4389 BY REDUCING THE APPROPRIATION FOR OSHA BY $10.3 MILLION. (MOTION FAILED)

177 yea · 240 nay11 not voting or present

Democrat54 yea · 206 nay

Republican126 yea · 34 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4389 ↗

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Act, 1980

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.

Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Employer priority”
model(0.90): Cutting OSHA funding reduces workplace safety enforcement, favoring employer interests.
Tagged by: keyword:osha
Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Reducing OSHA funding decreases overall 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 (180)

Nay (243)

Not voting or present (11)

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