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Senate Roll Call 196, 96th Congress · July 20, 1979

TO TABLE TSONGAS AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4389 THAT DEALT WITH THE BUSING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11

58 yea · 35 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat30 yea · 23 nay
Republican27 yea · 13 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4389

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Act, 1980

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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) This is a policy vote on school busing, not fiscal 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 (58)

Nay (36)

Not voting or present (6)

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