Skip to content
Their Record

House Roll Call 471, 96th Congress · September 27, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 5359, DOD APPROPRIATIONS, BY ADDING $10 MILLION FOR SUPPORT OF THE ARMY GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. (MOTION PASSED)

217 yea · 147 nay67 not voting or present
Democrat148 yea · 79 nay
Republican69 yea · 68 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5359

Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 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 expansion”

    model(0.90): Adds $10 million for Army graduate medical education programs.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Adds $10 million in appropriations.

    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 (218)

Nay (148)

Not voting or present (67)

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.