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House Roll Call 108, 100th Congress · May 12, 1987

TO AMEND HR 1748, DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO REQUIRE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM TO GUARD AGAINST ACCIDENTAL MISSILE LAUNCHES.

121 yea · 297 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat6 yea · 234 nay
Republican116 yea · 62 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1748

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989

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.

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.90): Requires development of a missile defense system.

    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 (122)

Nay (299)

Not voting or present (11)

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