House Roll Call 1051, 105th Congress · September 15, 1998

Defense Appropriations Act for F.Y. 1999 — H.R.4103 BY YOUNG, BILL (R-FL) -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1999 (PUB. L. 105-262, APPROVED 10/17/98) (HOUSE AGREED TO THE OBEY MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON H.R. 4103, TO REDUCE, WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE, THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT POSSIBLE FROM APPROPRIATIONS FOR LOW PRIORITY-CONGRESSIONALLY-DIRECTED PROJECTS NOT REQUESTED IN THE FY 1999 DEFENSE DEPARTMENT BUDGET REQUEST AND APPLY THOSE FUNDS TO ALLEVIATE HIGH PRIORITY MILITARY READINESS NEEDS FOR SPARE PARTS, QUALITY OF LIFE PROGRAMS, TRAINING EXERCISES, RETENTION BONUSES, AND REQUIREMENT INCENTIVES.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Instruct Conferees

348 yea · 61 nayPassed25 not voting or present

Democrat166 yea · 22 nay

Republican181 yea · 39 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4103 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999

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 expansion”
model(0.75): Directs resources toward military readiness and defense capabilities.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Net-neutral reallocation of funds within defense spending limits.
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 (348)

Nay (61)

Not voting or present (25)

Eva ClaytonDid not vote
Thomas M. Davis IIIDid not vote
Thomas Dale DeLayDid not vote
Eliot L. EngelDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Porter J. GossDid not vote
Jane HarmanDid not vote
John LewisDid not vote
Thomas J. MantonDid not vote
Joseph Michael McDadeDid not vote
Mike McIntyreDid not vote
Gregory W. MeeksDid not vote
Jerrold NadlerDid not vote
Major R. OwensDid not vote
Glenn PoshardDid not vote
Deborah D. PryceDid not vote
Frank D. RiggsDid not vote
Bob RileyDid not vote
Charles E. SchumerDid not vote
Linda SmithDid not vote
William J. TauzinDid not vote
Esteban Edward TorresDid not vote
Edolphus TownsDid not vote
Nydia M. VelázquezDid not vote
Albert Russell WynnDid not vote

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