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House Roll Call 587, 100th Congress · May 4, 1988

TO AMEND HR 4264, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO LIMIT THE FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR PHASE I OF THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE PROGRAM INVOLVING CURRENT TECHNOLOGY TO FORTY PERCENT.

244 yea · 174 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat214 yea · 24 nay
Republican30 yea · 151 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(0.90): Limiting funding for SDI technology restricts military expenditure.

    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 (246)

Nay (176)

Not voting or present (9)

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