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House Roll Call 55, 96th Congress · March 27, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 2729, A BILL TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NSF, BY BY PROHIBITING THE USE OF FUNDS TO TRANSFER NSF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS TO OTHER AGENCIES. (MOTION FAILED)

175 yea · 218 nay18 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 217 nay
Republican145 yea · 11 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Prohibiting agency transfer of educational programs is an administrative restriction without clear overall fiscal effect.

    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 (184)

Nay (230)

Not voting or present (18)

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