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House Roll Call 436, 97th Congress · May 19, 1982

TO PASS 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. (MOTION PASSED)

249 yea · 131 nay46 not voting or present
Democrat201 yea · 11 nay
Republican49 yea · 122 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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(0.95): Passing an authorization bill for National Bureau of Standards programs authorizes fiscal expenditure.

    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 (252)

Nay (134)

Not voting or present (46)

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