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House Roll Call 590, 96th Congress · November 14, 1979

TO PASS H.R. 2063, AMENDING AND EXTENDING THE PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1965. (MOTION PASSED)

301 yea · 99 nay31 not voting or present
Democrat230 yea · 22 nay
Republican70 yea · 77 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 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 expansion”

    model(0.90): Passing legislation extending public works programs authorizes federal spending.

    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 (303)

Nay (99)

Not voting or present (31)

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