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House Roll Call 181, 97th Congress · September 9, 1981

TO AMEND H.R. 4169, THE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPT. 30, 1981, BY PREVENTING THE USE OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FUNDS TO OBSTRUCT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS OF VOLUNTARY PRAYER AND MEDITATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (MOTION AGREED TO)

333 yea · 54 nay45 not voting or present
Democrat160 yea · 50 nay
Republican173 yea · 4 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4169

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982

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) A funding limitation regarding voluntary school prayer is a policy fight, not fiscal.

    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 (334)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (45)

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