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House Roll Call 824, 101st Congress · October 17, 1990

TO AMEND HR 5422, INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO REQUIRE THE HOUSE AND SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES TO APPROVE ANY COVERT ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, WITH CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

69 yea · 341 nayFailed21 not voting or present
Democrat68 yea · 167 nay
Republican1 yea · 173 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5422 ↗

Intelligence 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 restraint”

    model(0.95): Requiring congressional approval for covert intelligence operations imposes oversight restraint on military actions.

    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 (70)

Nay (341)

Not voting or present (21)

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