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House Roll Call 1515, 110th Congress · May 21, 2008

Providing for consideration of H.R. 5658, National Defense Authorization, 2009

Question before the chamber: On Ordering the Previous Question

235 yea · 186 nayPassed13 not voting or present
Democrat226 yea · 1 nay
Republican9 yea · 185 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 1213 ↗

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5658) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2009, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Congress — 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 (1.00) Ordering the previous question is floor procedure.

    Tagged by: keyword:national defense authorization

    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 (235)

Nay (186)

Not voting or present (13)

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