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House Roll Call 705, 104th Congress · October 18, 1995

Department of Defense Appropriations, FY 1996 — H.R.2126 BY YOUNG, BILL (R-FL) -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1996 (PUB. L. 104-61, APPROVED 12/1/95) (HOUSE REJECTED THE OBEY MOTION TO INSTRUCT HOUSE CONFEREES TO REDUCE WITHIN THE SCOPE OF CONFERENCE TOTAL SPENDING BY $3 BILLION COMPARED TO THE AMOUNT PROVIDED IN THE HOUSE BILL TO BE DERIVED FROM DELETING FUNDS FOR LOW PRIORITY "PROCUREMENT", "RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION" AND OTHER PROJECTS CONTAINED IN THE HOUSE OR SENATE BILLS THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET: PROVIDED, THAT THE CONFEREES SHALL NOT REDUCE MILITARY PAY OR OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE READINESS ACTIVITIES BELOW THE LEVELS PROVIDED IN THE HOUSE BILL. .)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Instruct Conferees

134 yea · 290 nayFailed8 not voting or present
Democrat115 yea · 74 nay
Republican18 yea · 216 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2126 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1996

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): Voting yes instructs conferees to cut defense spending by $3 billion.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.95): Voting yes instructs conferees to reduce total spending by $3 billion.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations act,appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (134)

Nay (290)

Not voting or present (8)

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