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House Roll Call 699, 93rd Congress · May 22, 1974

TO AMEND AN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 14592 BY REDUCING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF U.S. TROOPS OVERSEAS BY 100,000, INSTEAD OF BY 198,000.

163 yea · 240 nay31 not voting or present
Democrat130 yea · 96 nay
Republican33 yea · 143 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 14592

Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act, 1975

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): Reduces overseas troop cuts from 198,000 to 100,000, maintaining higher military force levels.

    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 (163)

Nay (240)

Not voting or present (31)

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