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House Roll Call 1050, 104th Congress · May 22, 1996

H.R.3259 BY COMBEST (R-TX) -- INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 (HOUSE AGREED TO THE RICHARDSON AMENDMENT, AS AMENDED BY THE MURTHA AMENDMENT, THAT PROHIBITS THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FROM USING ANY UNITED STATES MEDIA CORRESPONDENT UNLESS THE PRESIDENT CERTIFIES IN WRITING TO THE CONGRESS THAT SUCH USE IS NECESSARY TO ADDRESS THE OVERRIDING NATIONAL SECURITY INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment, As Amended

417 yea · 6 nayAgreed to10 not voting or present
Democrat193 yea · 0 nay
Republican223 yea · 6 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3259 ↗

Intelligence 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(0.80): Restricting intelligence community operations regarding media correspondents imposes restraint on military/intel operations.

    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 (417)

Nay (6)

Not voting or present (10)

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