House Roll Call 47, 97th Congress · June 2, 1981

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 3499, WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL COVERAGE TO VIETNAM VETERANS EXPOSED TO THE HERBICIDE AGENT ORANGE, TO CONTINUE READJUSTMENT COUNSELING CENTERS FOR VIETNAM VETERANS AND TO SET MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NUMBER OF HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOME BEDS THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MUST MAINTAIN. (MOTION AGREED TO)

388 yea · 0 nay38 not voting or present

Democrat208 yea · 0 nay

Republican182 yea · 0 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3499 ↗

Veterans' Health Care, Training, and Small Business Loan Act of 1981

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.

Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”
model(0.95): Expands medical coverage and health facilities for Vietnam veterans.
Tagged by: keyword:hospital
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Provides healthcare for veterans, which does not expand or restrain military operations.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (392)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (38)

Robert Edward BadhamDid not vote
Jack Bascom BrooksDid not vote
William S. BroomfieldDid not vote
William CarneyDid not vote
Anthony Lee CoelhoDid not vote
William Ross CotterDid not vote
Huey Joel DeckardDid not vote
Butler Carson Derrick Jr.Did not vote
William Louis DickinsonDid not vote
John D. DingellDid not vote
John G. FaryDid not vote
Ronnie Gene FlippoDid not vote
James Joseph FlorioDid not vote
Thomas Michael FogliettaDid not vote
Jonas Frost IIIDid not vote
Don FuquaDid not vote
William Herbert Gray IIIDid not vote
Wayne Richard GrishamDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
George Thomas LelandDid not vote
Marilyn Laird LloydDid not vote
Ronald Charles MarleneeDid not vote
Robert Homer MollohanDid not vote
Bill NelsonDid not vote
Charles Pashayan Jr.Did not vote
Charles Melvin PriceDid not vote
Robert A. RoeDid not vote
James Haas ScheuerDid not vote
Claudine SchneiderDid not vote
Richard Taylor SchulzeDid not vote
Samuel Studdiford StrattonDid not vote
Robert StumpDid not vote
Robert Smith WalkerDid not vote
Harold WashingtonDid not vote
John Vincent WeberDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote
Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
Clement John ZablockiDid not vote

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