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House Roll Call 127, 100th Congress · May 19, 1987

TO AMEND HR 1748, DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO PROHIBIT NUCLEAR TEST EXPLOSIONS LARGER THAN ONE KILOTON PROVIDED THAT THE SOVIET UNION OBSERVES THE SAME LIMITATION.

234 yea · 187 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat206 yea · 35 nay
Republican28 yea · 152 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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 restraint”

    model(0.95): Prohibiting larger nuclear test explosions imposes limits on weapon testing.

    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 (236)

Nay (188)

Not voting or present (8)

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