House Roll Call 303, 96th Congress · July 16, 1979

TO PASS H.R. 2282, PROVIDING A COST OF LIVING INCREASE IN DISABILITY COMPENSATION FOR DISABLED VETERANS AND IN DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SURVIVORS OF DISABLED VETERANS. (MOTION PASSED)

350 yea · 0 nay75 not voting or present

Democrat218 yea · 0 nay

Republican139 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a cost-of-living increase in the rates of compensation paid to veterans with service-connected disabilities and in the rates of dependency and indemnity compensations paid to survivors of veterans, to modify certain veterans' life insurance programs, and to exempt Veterans' Administration home loans from State anti-usury laws; to provide for certain assistance in locating individuals who were exposed to occupational hazards during military service; and for other purposes.

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Veterans' disability benefits do not directly expand or restrain military forces or operations.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (359)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (75)

John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Ike Franklin AndrewsDid not vote
Thomas Ludlow AshleyDid not vote
Mario BiaggiDid not vote
Edward Patrick BolandDid not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
David E. BoniorDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Daniel Bever CraneDid not vote
Mendel Jackson DavisDid not vote
Julian C. DixonDid not vote
Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
Charles Francis DoughertyDid not vote
David Farnham EmeryDid not vote
Billy Lee EvansDid not vote
John G. FaryDid not vote
Victor Herbert Fazio Jr.Did not vote
Millicent Hammond FenwickDid not vote
Geraldine Anne FerraroDid not vote
Hamilton Fish Jr.Did not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Harold Eugene FordDid not vote
William David FordDid not vote
Robert GarciaDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
William Herbert Gray IIIDid not vote
George Vernon HansenDid not vote
Tom HarkinDid not vote
William Howard HarshaDid not vote
Margaret M. HecklerDid not vote
Willie Gathrel HefnerDid not vote
Jon Clifton HinsonDid not vote
Kenneth Lamar HollandDid not vote
Elizabeth HoltzmanDid not vote
Richard Howard Ichord IIDid not vote
James M. JeffordsDid not vote
Edgar Lanier JenkinsDid not vote
Jack French KempDid not vote
Peter Houston KostmayerDid not vote
Anthony Claude Leach Jr.Did not vote
Raymond Francis LedererDid not vote
Thomas Gilbert LoefflerDid not vote
Stanley Nelson LundineDid not vote
Nicholas James MavroulesDid not vote
Paul Norton McCloskey Jr.Did not vote
Robert Cameron McEwenDid not vote
John Joseph MoakleyDid not vote
Michael Joseph MyersDid not vote
Lucien Norbert NedziDid not vote
Bill NelsonDid not vote
Richard M. NolanDid not vote
Leon Edward PanettaDid not vote
Donald James PeaseDid not vote
Claude Denson PepperDid not vote
James Jarrell PickleDid not vote
Charles B. RangelDid not vote
Herbert Ray RobertsDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
Keith George SebeliusDid not vote
Ike SkeltonDid not vote
Olympia J. SnoweDid not vote
Stephen Joshua SolarzDid not vote
David Alan StockmanDid not vote
Gene TaylorDid not vote
Guy Adrian Vander JagtDid not vote
Harold Lee VolkmerDid not vote
William Creed WamplerDid not vote
Lyle WilliamsDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote
Robert Carlton WilsonDid not vote
Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
Lester Lionel WolffDid not vote
John Waldemar WydlerDid not vote
Leo C. ZeferettiDid not vote

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.