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House Roll Call 434, 97th Congress · May 19, 1982

TO AMEND THE WALKER AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5726, A BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR THE PROGRAMS OF THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1983. THE WALKER AMENDMENT REDUCES THE AUTHORIZATIONS OF THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS BY $12.5 MILLION. THE FUQUA AMENDMENT REDUCES THE AUTHORIZATIONS OF THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS BY $6.5 MILLION. (MOTION PASSED)

195 yea · 191 nay46 not voting or present
Democrat189 yea · 23 nay
Republican5 yea · 166 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5726 ↗

National Bureau of Standards Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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 expansion”

    model(0.90): The Fuqua amendment makes a smaller spending cut ($6.5M) than the Walker amendment ($12.5M), preserving higher spending.

    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 (195)

Nay (191)

Not voting or present (46)

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