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House Roll Call 834, 108th Congress · May 12, 2004

Expressing the sense of the House that the Department of Defense should rectify deficiencies in the military postal system to ensure that members of the Armed Forces stationed overseas are able to receive and send election ballots in time to be counted in the 2004 elections.

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree

421 yea · 0 nayPassed13 not voting or present
Democrat198 yea · 0 nay
Republican222 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 608 ↗

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of Defense should rectify deficiencies in the military postal system to ensure that members of the Armed Forces stationed overseas are able to receive and send mail in a timely manner as well as receive and send election ballots in time to be counted in the 2004 elections.

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) Sense of House resolution regarding military postal ballots is non-binding.

    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 (421)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (13)

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