Senate Roll Call 18, 96th Congress · March 14, 1979

TO AGREE TO A SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2439, A BILL TO RESCIND CERTAIN BUDGET AUTHORITY. THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT, IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO THE JOHNSON AMENDMENT (SEE RC 19), RESTORES FUNDING FOR MEDICAL SCHOOLS. (MOTION FAILED)

42 yea · 55 nay3 not voting or present

Democrat26 yea · 30 nay

Republican16 yea · 24 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

A bill to rescind certain budget authority contained in the message of the President of January 31, 1979 (H. Doc. 96-46), transmitted pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

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(0.95): Restoring funding for medical schools expands 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 (42)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (3)

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