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House Roll Call 795, 105th Congress · May 20, 1998

H.R.3616 BY SPENCE (R-SC) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (HOUSE AGREED TO THE SPENCE AMENDMENT THAT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT U.S. BUSINESS INTERESTS MUST NOT BE PLACED ABOVE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS AND THAT THE UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO NEW AGREEMENTS WITH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC) INVOLVING SPACE OR MISSILE-RELATED TECHNOLOGY OR INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MILITARY-TO-MILITARY CONTACTS; THAT THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH SHOULD ENSURE THAT U.S. LAW REGARDING THE EXPORT OF SATELLITES TO THE PRC IS ENFORCED AND THE RELEVANT CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS WITH ALL DUE DISPATCH; AND THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD INDEFINITELY SUSPEND THE EXPORT OF SATELLITES OF U.S. ORIGIN TO CHINA. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

417 yea · 4 nayAgreed to11 not voting or present
Democrat191 yea · 4 nay
Republican225 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3616 ↗

Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999

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 (0.95) Non-binding sense-of-Congress resolution regarding China trade and technology.

    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 (417)

Nay (4)

Not voting or present (11)

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