Skip to content
Their Record

House Roll Call 621, 100th Congress · May 18, 1988

TO PASS HR 4586, FISCAL 1989 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS, A BILL TO AUTHORIZE FUNDS FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION IN THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT DURING FISCAL 1989.

382 yea · 26 nay21 not voting or present
Democrat216 yea · 16 nay
Republican165 yea · 10 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4586 ↗

A bill making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, and for other purposes.

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(0.90): Authorizing funds for military construction expands military infrastructure.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Passing appropriations for military construction increases federal spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (383)

Nay (27)

Not voting or present (21)

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.