Edwin Bell Forsythe on Defense & War Powers
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501 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Defense & War Powers. 299 of them counted toward the score above: 111 toward “Military expansion” and 188 toward “Military restraint”.
The other 202 did not count: 184 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 18 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.
| Date | What was voted on | Voted | Counted as |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-05-07 | TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 6574, A BILL TO ENCOURAGE PERSONS TO JOIN AND REMAIN IN THE RESERVES AND NATIONAL GUARD BY PROVIDING FULL-TIME COVERAGE UNDER SERVICEMEN'S GROUP LIFE INSURANCE FOR SUCH MEMBERS AND CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE RETIRED RESERVE.H.R. 6574 · 93rd Congress | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Military restraint / Military expansion axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.