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House Roll Call 293, 93rd Congress · July 31, 1973

TO AMEND THE O'NEILL AMENDMENT TO H.R. 9286. THE O'NEILL AMENDMENT WOULD REDUCE OVERSEAS TROOPS BY 100,000 AND PLACE A CEILING OF 400,000 ON TROOPS ASSIGNED ABROAD AFTER FISCAL 1974. THE PEYSER SUBSTITITUTE REQUIRES INSTEAD A REPORT TO THE HOUSE BY APRIL 1, 1974, BY THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE ON THE ADVISEABILITY OF MAINTAINING THE PRESENT U.S. MILITARY COMMITMENT IN EUROPE IN VIEW OF THE CURRENT EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND MILITARY SITUATION.

242 yea · 163 nay34 not voting or present
Democrat88 yea · 135 nay
Republican153 yea · 28 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 9286

Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act, 1974

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 expansion”

    model(0.85): Replacing mandatory troop cuts with a study report avoids military reductions.

    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 (242)

Nay (163)

Not voting or present (34)

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