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House Roll Call 431, 97th Congress · May 19, 1982

TO AMEND H.R. 5842 WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO THE PEYSER AMENDMENT. H.R. 5842 IS A BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR FISCAL YEARS 1982 AND 1983. THE PEYSER AMENDMENT RESTORES $20 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION. THE WINN SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT ELIMINATES THE $20 MILLION IN RESTORED FUNDS FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION. (MOTION FAILED)

189 yea · 203 nay40 not voting or present
Democrat34 yea · 180 nay
Republican154 yea · 21 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): A yes vote eliminates $20 million in restored science education funding.

    Tagged by: keyword: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 (189)

Nay (203)

Not voting or present (40)

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