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House Roll Call 335, 105th Congress · July 29, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE SHAYS AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO LIMIT NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY TO THE FY 1997 LEVEL RESULTING IN AN OVERALL REDUCTION OF $3.8 BILLION.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

137 yea · 290 nayFailed7 not voting or present
Democrat99 yea · 101 nay
Republican37 yea · 189 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2266 ↗

Department of Defense 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 restraint”

    model(0.95): Voting yes adopts a cap reducing overall defense budget authority by $3.8 billion.

    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 (137)

Nay (290)

Not voting or present (7)

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