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House Roll Call 248, 105th Congress · July 8, 1997

Military Construction Appropriations FY 1998 — H.R.2016 BY PACKARD (R-CA) -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1998 (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 2016, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, FAMILY HOUSING, AND BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1998. .)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

395 yea · 14 nayPassed25 not voting or present
Democrat181 yea · 8 nay
Republican213 yea · 6 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2016 ↗

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Appropriating funds for military construction expands military facilities and capacity.

    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 an annual appropriations bill authorizes expenditure of federal funds.

    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 (395)

Nay (14)

Not voting or present (25)

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