House Roll Call 297, 96th Congress · July 12, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4392 BY DELETING THE $1.6 MILLION APPROPRIATIONS TO THE U.S. METRIC BOARD. (MOTION FAILED)

122 yea · 280 nay30 not voting or present

Democrat46 yea · 203 nay

Republican76 yea · 76 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4392 ↗

Department of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriation 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 restraint”
model(0.95): Deleting funding for the Metric Board cuts 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 (122)

Nay (282)

Not voting or present (30)

William Vollie Alexander Jr.Did not vote
John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
John Milan AshbrookDid not vote
Druie Douglas Barnard Jr.Did not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
Jack Bascom BrooksDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
William Lacy Clay Sr.Did not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Julian C. DixonDid not vote
Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
Robert Blackford DuncanDid not vote
David Farnham EmeryDid not vote
Ronnie Gene FlippoDid not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Don FuquaDid not vote
Richard Andrew GephardtDid not vote
Jon Clifton HinsonDid not vote
Kenneth Lamar HollandDid not vote
Anthony Claude Leach Jr.Did not vote
Robert Linligthgow Livingston Jr.Did not vote
Parren James MitchellDid not vote
Joel McFee PritchardDid not vote
John Harbin RousselotDid not vote
Norman David ShumwayDid not vote
Ike SkeltonDid not vote
Gladys Noon SpellmanDid not vote
Fortney Pete StarkDid not vote
David Conner TreenDid not vote
Edward Lawrence Winn Jr.Did not vote

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