House Roll Call 285, 96th Congress · July 10, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 3821, INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS, BY REQUIRING THE PRESIDENT TO PUBLICLY DISCLOSE THE AGGREGATE APPROPRIATIONS TOTAL FOR THE NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM FOR FISCAL 1980. (MOTION FAILED)

79 yea · 321 nay32 not voting or present

Democrat73 yea · 174 nay

Republican5 yea · 147 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3821 ↗

Intelligence and Intelligence Related Activities Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1980

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(0.80): Mandating public disclosure of intelligence budgets increases transparency and restraint.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Requiring public disclosure of aggregate figures does not change spending totals.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (79)

Nay (323)

Not voting or present (32)

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