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House Roll Call 688, 101st Congress · September 18, 1990

TO AMEND HR 4739, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO REDUCE FUNDING IN OTHER PROGRAMS AND TRANSFER THE RESULTING $670 MILLION TO FUNDING FOR SDI.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

141 yea · 273 nayFailed16 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 224 nay
Republican128 yea · 50 nay
Other1 yea · 1 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): Transferring funds to increase SDI funding expands spending on strategic missile defense.

    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 (141)

Nay (275)

Not voting or present (16)

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