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House Roll Call 583, 100th Congress · May 4, 1988

TO AMEND HR 4264, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO INCREASE FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE.

105 yea · 312 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat8 yea · 227 nay
Republican97 yea · 84 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Increasing funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative expands military spending.

    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 (106)

Nay (313)

Not voting or present (12)

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