House Roll Call 1059, 105th Congress · September 16, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE REYES AMENDMENT, AS MODIFIED, TO THE TRAFICANT AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO CLARIFY THAT NOTHING SHALL BE CONSTRUED AS AUTHORIZING THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE ARMED FORCES IN CONTRAVENTION OF UNITED STATES LAW.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

167 yea · 256 nayFailed11 not voting or present

Democrat144 yea · 54 nay

Republican22 yea · 202 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4300 ↗

Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act

Policy area: International Affairs — 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(0.85): Limiting military deployment authority to legal boundaries favors military restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:armed forces
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 (167)

Nay (256)

Not voting or present (11)

Eliot L. EngelDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Porter J. GossDid not vote
John M. McHughDid not vote
Gregory W. MeeksDid not vote
Glenn PoshardDid not vote
Deborah D. PryceDid not vote
Frank D. RiggsDid not vote
Charles E. SchumerDid not vote
Linda SmithDid not vote
Edolphus TownsDid not vote

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