House Roll Call 631, 96th Congress · December 6, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4962 BY CONVERTING THE FINANCING MECHANISM FOR CHAP FROM AN ENTITLEMENT TO FIXED AUTHORIZATIONS SUBJECT TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS. (MOTION FAILED)

152 yea · 226 nay36 not voting or present

Democrat39 yea · 204 nay

Republican122 yea · 29 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4962 ↗

Child Health Assurance 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 CareA yea counts toward “Restrict coverage”
model(0.90): Converting an entitlement into fixed authorizations restricts health coverage growth.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.95): Converting entitlement funding to capped annual appropriations 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 (162)

Nay (235)

Not voting or present (36)

William Vollie Alexander Jr.Did not vote
Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr.Did not vote
John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Thomas Ludlow AshleyDid not vote
Berkley Warren BedellDid not vote
James Johnston BlanchardDid not vote
Don Leroy BonkerDid not vote
Jack Bascom BrooksDid not vote
Philip M. CraneDid not vote
Thomas A. DaschleDid not vote
Samuel Leeper DevineDid not vote
Robert Kenneth DornanDid not vote
Hamilton Fish Jr.Did not vote
Floyd James FithianDid not vote
Ronnie Gene FlippoDid not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
George Vernon HansenDid not vote
Jack English HightowerDid not vote
James Robert JonesDid not vote
Marilyn Laird LloydDid not vote
John Joseph MoakleyDid not vote
Morgan Francis MurphyDid not vote
Charles Melvin PriceDid not vote
James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
Herbert Ray RobertsDid not vote
Charles Grandison Rose IIIDid not vote
Benjamin Stanley RosenthalDid not vote
Martin Anthony RussoDid not vote
Richard Taylor SchulzeDid not vote
Keith George SebeliusDid not vote
Thomas Jefferson SteedDid not vote
David Conner TreenDid not vote
Guy Adrian Vander JagtDid not vote
Jamie Lloyd WhittenDid not vote
Edward Lawrence Winn Jr.Did not vote

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