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House Roll Call 29, 100th Congress · March 17, 1987

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 1085, G.I. BILL, A BILL TO PERMANENTLY EXTEND EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS OF THE NEW G.I. BILL OF 1984, MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.

401 yea · 2 nay30 not voting or present
Democrat226 yea · 1 nay
Republican172 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1085 ↗

New GI Bill Continuation Act

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(0.85): Permanently extends GI Bill educational benefits, expanding military recruitment and veteran benefits.

    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 (401)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (30)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.