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House Roll Call 798, 101st Congress · October 12, 1990

TO AMEND HR 5803, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1991, TO REDUCE ALL ACCOUNTS IN THE BILL BY AN ACROSS-THE-BOARD CUT OF 5 PERCENT.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

97 yea · 318 nayFailed14 not voting or present
Democrat86 yea · 154 nay
Republican12 yea · 164 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5803 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 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 restraint”

    model(0.95): Cutting defense appropriations by 5 percent reduces military spending.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.95): Cuts all accounts in the defense bill by 5 percent, reducing spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations act,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 (99)

Nay (319)

Not voting or present (14)

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