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House Roll Call 430, 97th Congress · May 19, 1982

TO AMEND H.R. 5842, A BILL AUTHORIZNG APPROPRIATIONS FOR ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR FISCAL YEARS 1982 AND 1983. THE WALKER AMENDMENT RESTRICTS THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS AS AUTHORIZED TO THE BALANCED BUDGET PROVISIONS OF PUBLIC LAWS, OR UNTIL A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT REQUIRING A BALANCED BUDGET HAS BEEN CONSIDERED BY BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS. (MOTION FAILED)

158 yea · 227 nay47 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 175 nay
Republican124 yea · 50 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5842

National Science Foundation Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1982 and 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 based on balanced budget criteria imposes fiscal restraint.

    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 (158)

Nay (227)

Not voting or present (47)

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