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House Roll Call 686, 101st Congress · September 18, 1990

TO AMEND HR 4739, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO DECREASE ALL OTHER SPENDING PROVISIONS PROPORTIONATELY SO AS TO INCREASE SDI SPENDING BY $1.3 BILLION TO A TOTAL OF $4.2 BILLION.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

83 yea · 338 nayFailed9 not voting or present
Democrat8 yea · 234 nay
Republican75 yea · 104 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4739 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991

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): Increasing funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative expands military defense programs.

    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 (83)

Nay (340)

Not voting or present (9)

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