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Senate Roll Call 905, 96th Congress · September 10, 1980

TO AMEND H.R. 7590, IMPOSING A CEILING ON PAY OF CERTAIN HIGHER PAID GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 38

78 yea · 13 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 7 nay
Republican31 yea · 6 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7590

Energy and Water Development Appropriation Act, 1981

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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Imposing a ceiling on federal employee pay restrains government outlays.

    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 (79)

Nay (13)

Not voting or present (8)

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