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Senate Roll Call 198, 96th Congress · July 20, 1979

TO TABLE ROTH AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4389 THAT REDUCED THE TOTAL BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR HEW BY $500 MILLLION WITH THE STIPULATION THAT THE REDUCTION BE ACHIEVED BY REDUCTION OF WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE AS DEFINED BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF HEW. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11

53 yea · 41 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 13 nay
Republican13 yea · 27 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Tabling kills a $500 million budget authority cut.

    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 (54)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (5)

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