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House Roll Call 271, 96th Congress · June 27, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4389 BY PROHIBITING USE OF FUNDS BY OSHA TO INSPECT WORK PLACES THAT HAVE BEEN INSPECTED BY STATES WITHIN THE PRECEEDING SIX MONTHS. (MOTION PASSED)

236 yea · 176 nay21 not voting or present
Democrat97 yea · 153 nay
Republican139 yea · 21 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 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): Prohibiting OSHA inspections reduces regulatory burden on employers, favoring employer priority.

    Tagged by: keyword:osha

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A rider blocking regulatory inspections is a policy fight where fiscal money is incidental.

    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 (237)

Nay (176)

Not voting or present (21)

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