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House Roll Call 505, 96th Congress · October 12, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2061 BY STRIKING THE NATIONAL PRIORITY GRANT PROGRAM. (MOTION FAILED)

85 yea · 197 nay148 not voting or present
Democrat18 yea · 152 nay
Republican67 yea · 46 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 0 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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Striking a grant program is an organizational funding change without a clear reform orientation.

    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 (86)

Nay (199)

Not voting or present (148)

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