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House Roll Call 1078, 105th Congress · September 24, 1998

National Defense Authorization for Fiscal Year 1999 — H.R.3616 BY SPENCE (R-SC) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 JUNIPER BUTTE RANGE WITHDRAWAL ACT OF 1998 FAIR TRADE IN AUTOMOTIVE PARTS ACT OF 1998 RADIO FREE ASIA ACT OF 1998 (PUB. L. 105-261, APPROVED 10/17/98) (HOUSE AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 3616, TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 FOR MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, TO PRESCRIBE MILITARY PERSONNEL STRENGTHS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Conference Report

373 yea · 50 nayPassed11 not voting or present
Democrat165 yea · 37 nay
Republican208 yea · 12 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3616

Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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(0.95): Passing defense authorization expands military spending and operational programs.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Passing defense authorization increases authorized federal spending levels.

    Tagged by: keyword: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 (373)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (11)

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