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House Roll Call 1053, 104th Congress · May 22, 1996

(HOUSE REJECTED THE FRANK OF MASSACHUSETTS AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REDUCE THE TOTAL FUNDING AUTHORIZED BY 4.9 PERCENT AND TO PERMIT THE PRESIDENT, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, TO APPLY THIS REDUCTION BY TRANSFERRING AND REPROGRAMMING AMOUNTS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

192 yea · 235 nayFailed6 not voting or present
Democrat154 yea · 41 nay
Republican37 yea · 194 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): Reducing total intelligence authorization funding by 4.9 percent exercises 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 (192)

Nay (235)

Not voting or present (6)

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