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House Roll Call 594, 96th Congress · November 15, 1979

TO PASS H.R. 2626, ESTABLISHES VOLUNTARY LIMITS ON THE ANNUAL INCREASES IN TOTAL HOSPITAL EXPENSES, AND TO THE EXTENT THAT THE VOLUNTARY LIMITS ARE NOT EFFECTIVE PROVIDES FOR MANDATORY LIMITS ON THE ANNUAL INCREASES IN HOSPITAL IN PATIENT REVENUES. (MOTION PASSED)

321 yea · 75 nay22 not voting or present
Democrat227 yea · 25 nay
Republican100 yea · 56 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 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 measures do not directly address expanding or restricting 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 (330)

Nay (81)

Not voting or present (22)

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