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House Roll Call 585, 100th Congress · May 4, 1988

TO AMEND HR 4264, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO INCREASE FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE IN ORDER TO FORCE A HOUSE VOTE ON THE FUNDING LEVEL AUTHORIZED BY THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE.

190 yea · 227 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 198 nay
Republican153 yea · 29 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 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 (192)

Nay (229)

Not voting or present (10)

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