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House Roll Call 246, 93rd Congress · July 18, 1973

TO AMEND H.J.RES. 524, CONCERNING THE WAR POWERS OF THE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT, BY REQUIRING CONGRESS TO SPECIFICALLY APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE BY BILL OR RESOLUTION THE COMMITMENT OF FORCES BY THE PRESIDEN IN THE ABSENCE OF A DECLARATION OF WAR WITHIN 90 DAYS OF SUCH EXECUTIVE ACTION.

166 yea · 250 nay21 not voting or present
Democrat23 yea · 212 nay
Republican143 yea · 39 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 524 ↗

Joint resolution authorizing the President to proclaim May of each year as "National Earth and Wildlife Month".

Policy area: Commemorations — 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(0.90): Requiring congressional approval for executive troop commitments restrains military authority.

    Tagged by: keyword:war powers

    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 (21)

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