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Senate Roll Call 930, 96th Congress · September 18, 1980

TO AGREE TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 7831, TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS, ADDING MORE FUNDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF AIRBAGS AND OTHER PASSIVE RESTRAINTS. (MOTION PASSED)

48 yea · 38 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat30 yea · 21 nay
Republican18 yea · 17 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7831

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies 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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Adding funds for a spending program increases fiscal expenditure.

    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 (48)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (13)

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