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House Roll Call 704, 100th Congress · July 12, 1988

TO AMEND IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE HR 4481, MILITARY BASE CLOSINGS, TO PROVIDE THAT MILITARY BASES RECOMMENDED FOR BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE BE CLOSED, EXCEPT WHEN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS DISAPPROVE AND TO PROVIDE THAT THEY ARE DOMESTIC BASES.

223 yea · 186 nay20 not voting or present
Democrat66 yea · 166 nay
Republican154 yea · 22 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4481

National Defense Authorization Act, 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(0.85): Making military base closures default unless blocked by Congress facilitates closing bases, favoring military restraint.

    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 (223)

Nay (188)

Not voting or present (20)

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