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House Roll Call 134, 100th Congress · May 20, 1987

TO RECOMMIT HR 1748, DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO INCLUDE A PROVISION THAT ALLOWS NUCLEAR TESTS AND THE SUSPENSION OF SALT II AND ABM TREATY LIMITATIONS IF THE SOVIET UNION DOES NOT COMPLY WITH A US-SOVIET ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENT.

172 yea · 247 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 228 nay
Republican160 yea · 19 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(0.95): Recommittal instructions allowing nuclear tests and treaty suspensions favor 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 (173)

Nay (249)

Not voting or present (10)

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