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House Roll Call 488, 96th Congress · October 9, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2859, APPROPRIATION AUTHORIZATION FOR DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS, BY ABOLISHING THE NATIONAL GRANTS PROGRAM. (MOTION FAILED)

177 yea · 209 nay47 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 201 nay
Republican135 yea · 7 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2859

Domestic Volunteer Service Act Amendments of 1979

Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.

  • Labor & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Domestic volunteer programs do not directly map to the employer versus worker priority axis.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

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

Yea (177)

Nay (209)

Not voting or present (47)

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