House Roll Call 491, 96th Congress · October 10, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2061, RESTRICTING THE FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION, BY PERMITTING FORMULA GRANT FUNDS TO BE USED TO PURCHASE EQUIPMENT OR HARDWARE NOT IN EXCESS OF $1,000. (MOTION FAILED)

181 yea · 224 nay27 not voting or present

Democrat88 yea · 160 nay

Republican94 yea · 61 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2061 ↗

Justice System Improvement Act of 1979

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.

Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.80): Funding law enforcement equipment and hardware supports traditional punitive policing resources.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

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

Yea (182)

Nay (224)

Not voting or present (27)

John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Edward Peter BeardDid not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
David E. BoniorDid not vote
John BrademasDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
Shirley Anita ChisholmDid not vote
Cardiss CollinsDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
Robert Christian EckhardtDid not vote
Allen Edward ErtelDid not vote
Dante Bruno FascellDid not vote
Hamilton Fish Jr.Did not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Jonas Frost IIIDid not vote
Gillis William LongDid not vote
Richard M. NolanDid not vote
John Harbin RousselotDid not vote
Gerald Brooks Hunt SolomonDid not vote
David Alan StockmanDid not vote
David Conner TreenDid not vote
Albert Conrad UllmanDid not vote
Lionel Van DeerlinDid not vote
Douglas WalgrenDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote
Edward Lawrence Winn Jr.Did not vote

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