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House Roll Call 1034, 104th Congress · May 14, 1996

(HOUSE PASSED THE SHAYS AMENDMENT THAT REQUIRES THE PRESIDENT TO SEEK INCREASES IN DEFENSE BURDEN SHARING BY U.S. ALLIES; PROVIDERS AUTHORITIES TO THE PRESIDENT TO ACHIEVE INCREASES IN BURDEN SHARING BY U.S. ALLIES; AND REQUIRES THE DOD TO REPORT ON PROGRESS MADE BY INCREASING ALLIED BURDEN SHARING AN ALTERNATIVE FORWARD DEPLOYMENT CONFIGURATIONS THAT WOULD MEET ALLIANCE REQUIREMENTS OR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

353 yea · 62 nayAgreed to18 not voting or present
Democrat179 yea · 9 nay
Republican173 yea · 53 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3230 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997

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(0.90): Requires foreign allies to bear a greater share of defense costs.

    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 (353)

Nay (62)

Not voting or present (18)

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