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House Roll Call 126, 100th Congress · May 19, 1987

TO AMEND HR 1748, DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO PERMIT NUCLEAR TEST EXPLOSIONS UNDER ONE KILOTON PROVIDED THAT THE SOVIET UNION OBSERVES THE SAME LIMITATION AND THAT PROVISIONS OF THE MORATORIUM DO NOT IMPEDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SRAM II OR MIDGETMAN MISSILES.

201 yea · 220 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 202 nay
Republican163 yea · 18 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 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): Permitting nuclear tests to ensure missile development moves toward military expansion.

    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 (203)

Nay (222)

Not voting or present (7)

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