House Roll Call 54, 96th Congress · March 27, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2729, A BILL TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, BY REDUCING THE FUNDS AUTHORIZED FOR BIOLOGICAL, BEHAVIORAL, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BY $14 MILLION. (MOTION PASSED)

219 yea · 174 nay24 not voting or present

Democrat92 yea · 166 nay

Republican131 yea · 16 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2729 ↗

An act to authorize appropriations for activities for the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 1980, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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): Cutting science foundation authorizations by $14 million reduces spending.
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 (225)

Nay (183)

Not voting or present (24)

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