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Senate Roll Call 779, 96th Congress · June 28, 1980

TO SUSTAIN THE RULING OF THE CHAIR THAT HEINZ AMENDMENT TO H.R. 7542, PROHIBITING THE USE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS FOR COUNTING OR REPORTING ILLEGAL ALIENS FOR PURPOSES OF APPORTIONING REPRESENTATIVES OF CONGRESS, IS OUT OF ORDER AS BEING LEGILATION ON AN APPROPRIATIONS BILL. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 33

52 yea · 31 nay16 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 3 nay
Republican7 yea · 28 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7542

Supplemental Appropriations and Rescission Act of 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 (0.95) Sustaining a point of order ruling that an amendment is legislation on an appropriations bill is procedural.

    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 (53)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (16)

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