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JUNE, 1980 — PALMER HOUSE, CHICAGO, ILL.

NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
Black Press of America

NNPA Congressional Vote Study

The National Newspaper Publishers Association has been providing the public with information on votes by Members of Congress on issues of concern to Black and lower-income persons. The first such study was published in September 1978 on 22 key votes for the entire House of Representatives from January to August 1978. In May 1979, a study of votes by southern members of the House on six key House Budget Resolution votes was published.

The present study provides information on 18 key votes by all House Members from January through August 1979. The issues range from the six Budget Resolution votes to Rhodesia policy, school desegregation, fuel assistance for the poor and amendments to restrict affirmative action. In this international Year of the Child, we should recognize the impact of each of these issues on our children and young people. Funds to provide jobs for youth, efforts to slow school desegregation and cut food stamp funds affect our young people very directly. Attempts to restrict affirmative action or cut the windfall profits tax directly harm parents with direct consequences to their children.

We have compared the votes of each Representative on an issue to the vote by the Congressional Black Caucus Members. Where a Representative voted with the Caucus, he or she received a plus ("+"); where a Representative voted against the Caucus, a minus ("-") was given. A person not voting received a "?". A "pair", a formally announced vote by an absent Member, was counted as an actual vote. The right-hand column indicates the  percentage of actual votes on which a Representative voted with the Caucus. Absences (indicated by "?") do not subtract from a Member's support percentage.

While votes by the Congressional Black Caucus members are used as a standard, it would be understood that this study is published by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and not by the Caucus. We believe that the Caucus' position represents the position of the Black community.

We hope that this and other congressional vote studies which we are publishing will serve to increase political participation and influence by our most underrepresented citizens.  

Description of Key Votes

1. Bauman Amendment to the Foreign Aid bill to authorize the President to send observers to the April 1979 Rhodesian elections, to authorize a $68 million economic support for southern Africa, and to authorize the President to grant Rhodesia $20 million in aid once the elections were held in that country Major American Black organizations opposed sending U.S. observers to Rhodesia to what they considered illegal elections. Rejected 180-190, April 9, 1979, CBC AGAINST.

2. The Weiss Amendment to the House Budge Resolution would have taken $1 billion from defense spending and transferred it into youth job programs. Rejected 92-321, May 8, 1979. CBC FOR.

3. The Coleman Amendment to the House Budget Resolution seeking a $650 million reduction in spending for food stamps. rejected 147-276, May 9, 1979. CBC AGAINST.

4. The Latta Amendment - A Republican substitute to the Budget Committee's recommendations for the House Budget Resolution. The Latta Amendment

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