Skip to content
Their Record

House Roll Call 568, 100th Congress · April 29, 1988

TO AMEND HR 4264, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO DECREASE THE NUMBER OF U.S. TROOPS IN EUROPE AND JAPAN OVER THREE YEARS UNLESS THOSE COUNTRIES INCREASE THEIR DEFENSE SPENDING TO ONE PERCENT HIGHER THAN THEIR ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE.

120 yea · 240 nay55 not voting or present
Democrat104 yea · 108 nay
Republican23 yea · 139 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 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): Reduces US troop deployment abroad.

    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 (128)

Nay (248)

Not voting or present (55)

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.