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House Roll Call 456, 103rd Congress · September 29, 1993

(ON A SEPARATE VOTE, HOUSE AGREED TO THE SKELTON AMENDMENT, THAT CODIFIES THE PRESIDENT'S "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL" POLICY WITH REGARDS TO HOMOSEXUALS IN THE MILITARY.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

295 yea · 133 nayAgreed to5 not voting or present
Democrat127 yea · 120 nay
Republican168 yea · 12 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2401 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994

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 (0.85) Codifying military personnel policy regarding sexual orientation does not directly expand or restrain military power.

    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 (295)

Nay (133)

Not voting or present (5)

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