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House Roll Call 272, 96th Congress · June 27, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4389 BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH BY $47 MILLION TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR INVESTIGATOR-INITIATED PROJECT GRANTS. (MOTION FAILED)

178 yea · 228 nay22 not voting or present
Democrat132 yea · 120 nay
Republican49 yea · 109 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Increasing appropriations by $47 million expands 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 (181)

Nay (231)

Not voting or present (22)

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