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House Roll Call 705, 96th Congress · February 7, 1980

TO PASS H.R. 2609, INCREASING THE APPROPRIATIONS CEILING FOR TITLE I OF THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN SALINITY CONTROL ACT. (MOTION PASSED)

275 yea · 94 nay52 not voting or present
Democrat163 yea · 70 nay
Republican116 yea · 29 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2609

A bill to increase the appropriations ceiling for Title I of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (Act of June 24, 1974; 88 Stat. 266), and for other purposes.

Policy area: Water Resources Development — 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(0.95): Raising the appropriations ceiling expands authorized spending.

    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 (281)

Nay (100)

Not voting or present (52)

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