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House Roll Call 426, 97th Congress · May 13, 1982

TO AMEND H.R. 5890, A BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS TO NASA FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES, AND RESEARCH AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT. THE WALKER AMENDMENT RESTRICTS THE EXPENDITURES OF FUNDS AS AUTHORIZED BY THIS ACT TO A FIGURE WHICH WOULD CONFORM TO PROVISIONS OF PUBLIC LAW REQUIRING A BALANCED BUDGET. (MOTION FAILED)

121 yea · 248 nay63 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 173 nay
Republican102 yea · 73 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5890

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1983

Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications — 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(0.95): Restricting spending to conform with a balanced budget limits expenditures.

    Tagged by: keyword:balanced budget,appropriations

    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 (121)

Nay (248)

Not voting or present (63)

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