House Roll Call 364, 105th Congress · September 5, 1997

National Defense Authorization Act — 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 AGREED TO THE TRAFICANT MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON H.R. 1119, TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEARS 1998 AND 1999 FOR MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, AND TO PRESCRIBE MILITARY PERSONNEL STRENGTHS FOR FISCAL YEARS 1998 AND 1999, TO INSIST UPON THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 1032 OF THE HOUSE BILL RELATING TO THE ASSIGNMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERSONNEL TO BORDER PATROL AND CONTROL. .)

Question before the chamber: Motion to instruct conferees

261 yea · 150 nayPassed22 not voting or present

Democrat68 yea · 129 nay

Republican193 yea · 20 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 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 (0.90) Text is incomplete and truncated.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Text is incomplete and truncated.
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 (261)

Nay (150)

Not voting or present (22)

Richard Hugh BakerDid not vote
Cass BallengerDid not vote
Frederick C. BoucherDid not vote
H. L. CallahanDid not vote
Terry EverettDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Lindsey GrahamDid not vote
Ernest J. Istook Jr.Did not vote
Jerry LewisDid not vote
William O. LipinskiDid not vote
Karen McCarthyDid not vote
Bill McCollumDid not vote
Dan MillerDid not vote
Michael ParkerDid not vote
Nancy PelosiDid not vote
Deborah D. PryceDid not vote
Steven Harvey SchiffDid not vote
Linda SmithDid not vote
Gerald Brooks Hunt SolomonDid not vote
Charles W. StenholmDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote
Don YoungDid not vote

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