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House Roll Call 702, 101st Congress · September 19, 1990

NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991 — TO PASS HR 4739, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991 FOR MILITARY FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

Question before the chamber: On Passage

256 yea · 155 nayPassed12 not voting or present
Democrat218 yea · 20 nay
Republican42 yea · 138 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(0.90): Passes defense authorization bill providing funding for military functions.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Authorizes appropriations for military functions, expanding 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 (261)

Nay (159)

Not voting or present (12)

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