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House Roll Call 589, 96th Congress · November 14, 1979

TO RECOMMIT H.R. 2063, PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO ADD AN AMENDMENT STRIKING THE $2 BILLION AUTHORIZATION FOR A STANDBY LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM WHEN THE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AVERAGES AT LEAST 6.5% FOR THE MOST RECENT CALENDAR QUARTER. (MOTION FAILED)

148 yea · 250 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 217 nay
Republican113 yea · 39 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2063 ↗

National Economic Development and Public Works Act of 1979

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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(0.95): Motion with instructions to strike a $2 billion spending authorization promotes fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (153)

Nay (257)

Not voting or present (23)

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