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House Roll Call 810, 105th Congress · May 21, 1998

National Defense Authorization for Fiscal Year 1999 — (HOUSE REJECTED THE FRANK OF MASSACHUSETTS MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORTHWITH WITH AN AMENDMENT THAT PROHIBITS FUNDING AFTER DECEMBER 31, 1998 FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF U.S. ARMED FORCES TO THE REPUBLIC OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA UNLESS A LAW HAS BEEN ENACTED THAT EXPLICITLY AUTHORIZES THE DEPLOYMENT.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

167 yea · 251 nayFailed15 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 160 nay
Republican130 yea · 90 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”

    model(0.95): A yes vote adopts instructions to prohibit unauthorized troop deployment to Bosnia, enforcing military restraint.

    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 (167)

Nay (251)

Not voting or present (15)

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