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House Roll Call 254, 100th Congress · July 14, 1987

TO AMEND HR 2906, MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS, TO REDUCE APPROPRIATIONS NOT REQUIRED BY LAW BY 0.9 PERCENT.

140 yea · 281 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 190 nay
Republican89 yea · 92 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2906 ↗

A bill making appropriations for Military Construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1988, and for other purposes.

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(0.90): Reducing military construction appropriations reduces defense spending.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.95): Reducing appropriations cuts spending and promotes fiscal restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (140)

Nay (282)

Not voting or present (11)

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