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Senate Roll Call 376, 97th Congress · November 16, 1981

TO TABLE THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4169, WHICH WOULD STRIKE THE LANGUAGE WHICH WOULD PROVIDE THAT NO FUNDS APPROPRIATED UNDER THE ACT MAY BE USED TO PREVENT IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMS OF VOLUNTARY PRAYER AND MEDITATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 17

70 yea · 12 nay16 not voting or present
Democrat27 yea · 11 nay
Republican43 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4169

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) School prayer policy rider on an appropriations bill is non-fiscal.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (71)

Nay (13)

Not voting or present (16)

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