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House Roll Call 58, 96th Congress · March 28, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 1786, A BILL TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR NASA FOR RESEARCH AND CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES, BY REDUCING THE AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH AUTHORIZATION AND PROHIBITING USE OF FUNDS FOR SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT RESEARCH. (MOTION FAILED)

137 yea · 246 nay46 not voting or present
Democrat122 yea · 116 nay
Republican17 yea · 128 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1786

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1980

Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications — 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): Reducing spending authorizations and prohibiting funds for research represents fiscal restraint.

    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 (140)

Nay (246)

Not voting or present (46)

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