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House Roll Call 214, 105th Congress · June 19, 1997

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE SPENCE AMENDMENT THAT REQUIRES PRIOR EXPORT APPROVAL FOR SUPERCOMPUTERS WITH A COMPOSITE THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE OF MORE THAN 2,000 MILLION OF THEORETICAL OPERATIONS PER SECOND (MTOPS) TO COUNTRIES WHICH MAY VIOLATE NON-PROLIFERATION AGREEMENTS WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, SECRETARY OF ENERGY, SECRETARY OF STATE, AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

332 yea · 88 nayAgreed to14 not voting or present
Democrat134 yea · 59 nay
Republican197 yea · 29 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.70) Export control approval requirements for supercomputers do not directly expand or restrain US military capabilities.

    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 (332)

Nay (88)

Not voting or present (14)

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