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House Roll Call 564, 100th Congress · April 28, 1988

TO AMEND HR 4264, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO BAR NUCLEAR TESTS WITH YIELDS OVER ONE KILOTON, AND TO RESTRICT TESTS TO CERTAIN AREAS AS LONG AS THE SOVIET UNION ADHERES TO SIMILAR RESTRICTIONS.

214 yea · 186 nay21 not voting or present
Democrat197 yea · 33 nay
Republican20 yea · 157 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4264 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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): Restricts yield and locations of nuclear tests.

    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 (219)

Nay (191)

Not voting or present (21)

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