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House Roll Call 212, 105th Congress · June 19, 1997

H.R.1119 BY SPENCE (R-SC) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEARS 1998 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998 SIKES ACT IMPROVEMENT AMENDMENTS OF 1997 (HOUSE REJECTED THE SANDERS AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REDUCE OVERALL AUTHORIZED SPENDING LEVELS BY 5 PERCENT, A REDUCTION OF $13.4 BILLION, IN FISCAL YEARS 1998 AND 1999.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

89 yea · 332 nayFailed13 not voting or present
Democrat75 yea · 119 nay
Republican13 yea · 213 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1119 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998

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): Cutting defense authorization levels by 5 percent reduces military spending and scope.

    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 (89)

Nay (332)

Not voting or present (13)

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