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House Roll Call 15, 102nd Congress · January 29, 1991

AGENT ORANGE ACT OF 1991 — H.R.556 BY MONTGOMERY (D-MS) -- AGENT ORANGE ACT OF 1991 (PUB. L. 102-4, APPROVED 2/06/91) (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 556, AMENDED, TO PROVIDE FOR THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS TO OBTAIN INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF THE AVAILABLE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE REGARDING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN DISEASES AND EXPOSURE TO DIOXIN AND OTHER CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS IN HERBICIDES.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

412 yea · 0 nayPassed22 not voting or present
Democrat244 yea · 0 nay
Republican165 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 556 ↗

Agent Orange Act of 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Scientific review for veterans' herbicide exposure does not expand or restrain military powers.

    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 (412)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (22)

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