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House Roll Call 307, 96th Congress · July 16, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4393, TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE APPROPRIATIONS, BY PROHIBITING THE $50,000 APPROPRIATION FOR THE EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF THE PRESIDENT TO BE EXTENDED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE, AND PROVIDING THAT ANY UNUSED AMOUNT SHALL REVERT TO THE TREASURY. (MOTION PASSED)

294 yea · 90 nay38 not voting or present
Democrat146 yea · 94 nay
Republican153 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4393

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government 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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Requiring unused presidential allowance funds to revert to the Treasury promotes fiscal restraint.

    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 (300)

Nay (96)

Not voting or present (38)

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