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House Roll Call 1051, 104th Congress · May 22, 1996

(HOUSE REJECTED THE SANDERS AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO LIMIT THE FISCAL YEAR 1997 INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION LEVEL TO 90 PERCENT OF THE FISCAL YEAR 1996 LEVEL.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

115 yea · 311 nayFailed7 not voting or present
Democrat92 yea · 101 nay
Republican22 yea · 210 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(0.95): Cutting intelligence authorization by 10 percent exercises military restraint.

    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 (115)

Nay (311)

Not voting or present (7)

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