Zach Wamp on Defense & War Powers

RepublicanTN

Defense & War Powers232 votes · 76.9/100 consistent

Military restraintMilitary expansion

803 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Defense & War Powers. 232 of them counted toward the score above: 181 toward “Military expansion” and 51 toward “Military restraint”.

The other 571 did not count: 566 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 5 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
1995-02-15	(HOUSE REJECTED THE MONTGOMERY SUBSTITUTE TO THE SKELTON AMENDMENT, AS AMENDED BY THE DELLUMS AMENDMENT, THAT SOUGHT TO PROVIDE THAT OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FUNDS APPROPRIATED OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996, THE AMOUNT OBLIGATED FOR NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS MAY NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT MADE AVAILABLE FOR NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1995 UNTIL THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CERTIFIES TO THE CONGRESS THAT THE ARMED FORCES ARE PROPERLY SIZED, EQUIPPED, HOUSED, AND STRUCTURED AND ARE READY TO CARRY OUT ASSIGNED MISSIONS AS REQUIRED BY THE NATIONAL MILITARY STRATEGY.)H.R. 7 · 104th Congress · On Agreeing to the Amendment, as amended	Nay	Military expansion
1995-02-15	(HOUSE AGREED TO THE SPRATT AMENDMENT THAT ESTABLISHES AS U.S. POLICY AN ORDER TO PRIORITY FOR MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS BY FIRST, ENSURING OPERATIONAL READINESS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND ACCOMPLISHING PROGRAMMED MODERNIZATION OF WEAPONS SYSTEMS; SECOND, UNDER SUCH MODERNIZATION, FUNDING THE COMPLETION OF DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT AT THE EARLIEST DATE OF MORE EFFECTIVE THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE (TMD) SYSTEMS; AND, THIRD DEVELOPING AS SOON AS FUNDING IS AVAILABLE, A GROUND-BASED INTERCEPTOR SYSTEM CAPABLE OF DESTROYING BALLISTIC MISSILES LAUNCHED AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.)H.R. 7 · 104th Congress · On Agreeing to the Amendment	Nay	Military expansion
1995-02-15	H.R.7 BY SPENCE (R-SC) -- NATIONAL SECURITY REVITALIZATION ACT NATO REVITALIZATION AND EXPANSION ACT OF 1995 (CONTRACT WITH AMERICA) (HOUSE AGREED TO THE SPENCE AMENDMENT THAT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT NEGOTIATIONS BEARING UPON MISSILE DEFENSES AND/OR THE VIABILITY OF THE ABM TREATY SHOULD BE SUSPENDED UNTIL THE 104TH CONGRESS HAS HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THIS ISSUE.)H.R. 7 · 104th Congress · On Agreeing to the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable

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.