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House Roll Call 571, 100th Congress · May 2, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND ACCEPT THE SENATE AMENDMENTS TO HR 1811, ATOMIC VETERANS COMPENSATION, TO PROVIDE FOR BENEFITS TO VETERANS, AND THEIR SURVIVORS, WHO PARTICIPATED IN NUCLEAR TESTS OR OCCUPATION OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI AND WHO SUFFER FROM DISEASES THAT MAY BE CAUSED BY RADIATION EXPOSURE. MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.

326 yea · 2 nay93 not voting or present
Democrat186 yea · 0 nay
Republican149 yea · 2 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1811

Radiation-Exposed Veterans Compensation Act of 1988

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Veterans benefits for radiation exposure do not directly alter military posture.

    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 (336)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (93)

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