House Roll Call 876, 104th Congress · January 5, 1996

National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1996 — S.1124 BY THURMOND (R-SC) -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996 MISSILE DEFENSE ACT OF 1995 (HOUSE AGREED TO THE SPENCE MOTION THAT THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEETINGS ON S. 1124 BE CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC AT SUCH TIMES AS CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION IS UNDER CONSIDERATION, EXCEPT THAT ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS HAS THE RIGHT TO ATTEND ANY OPEN OR CLOSED MEETING.)

Question before the chamber: Closing Portions of the Conference

398 yea · 1 nayPassed34 not voting or present

Democrat179 yea · 1 nay

Republican218 yea · 0 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1124 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) A vote to close committee meetings for classified security info is internal procedure.
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 (398)

Nay (1)

Peter A. DeFazio

Not voting or present (34)

Richard K. ArmeyDid not vote
Richard Hugh BakerDid not vote
Howard L. BermanDid not vote
John Wiley BryantDid not vote
Richard BurrDid not vote
Jim ChapmanDid not vote
Dick ChryslerDid not vote
Victor Herbert Fazio Jr.Did not vote
Jack Milton Fields Jr.Did not vote
Tillie K. FowlerDid not vote
Greg GanskeDid not vote
James Allison HayesDid not vote
Harry A. Johnston IIDid not vote
Tom LantosDid not vote
James Ross LightfootDid not vote
Zoe LofgrenDid not vote
Gillespie V. MontgomeryDid not vote
Constance MorellaDid not vote
John Thomas MyersDid not vote
Ron PackardDid not vote
James Henry QuillenDid not vote
Ileana Ros-LehtinenDid not vote
Charles Grandison Rose IIIDid not vote
E. Clay Shaw Jr.Did not vote
David Evans SkaggsDid not vote
Linda SmithDid not vote
Fortney Pete StarkDid not vote
Steve StockmanDid not vote
Gerry Eastman StuddsDid not vote
Charles H. TaylorDid not vote
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr.Did not vote
John Patrick WilliamsDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote
Ron WydenDid not vote

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