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House Roll Call 674, 100th Congress · June 21, 1988

TO PASS HR 4781, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, A BILL TO ALLOCATE APPROXIMATELY $282.6 BILLION IN FUNDS FOR DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MILITARY PROGRAMS DURING FISCAL YEAR 1989.

360 yea · 53 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat201 yea · 33 nay
Republican160 yea · 20 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4781 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 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): Passing defense appropriations allocates funding for defense programs.

    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 an appropriations bill provides federal funding.

    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 (363)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (15)

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