House Roll Call 593, 96th Congress · November 15, 1979

TO AGREE TO A SUBSTITUTE FOR INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2626, HOSPITAL COST CONTAINMENT. THE GEPHARDT AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR VOLUNTARY EFFORTS TO CONTAIN HOSPITAL COST. (MOTION PASSED)

234 yea · 166 nay22 not voting or present

Democrat96 yea · 162 nay

Republican142 yea · 8 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2626 ↗

Hospital Cost Containment and Reporting Act of 1979

Policy area: Health — 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.

Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Hospital cost containment regulations do not directly expand or restrict healthcare coverage.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (240)

Nay (171)

Not voting or present (22)

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