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House Roll Call 847, 100th Congress · September 30, 1988

TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON HR 4781, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, TO ALLOCATE $282.4 BILLION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

327 yea · 77 nay22 not voting or present
Democrat167 yea · 69 nay
Republican162 yea · 9 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(0.90): Approving defense appropriations funds and expands military operations.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Adopting an appropriations conference report expands 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 (330)

Nay (79)

Not voting or present (22)

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