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House Roll Call 851, 93rd Congress · August 5, 1974

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 14402, EXTENDING FOR TWO YEARS THE PERIOD DURING WHICH THE AUTHORIZED NUMBERS FOR THE GRADES OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL AND COLONEL IN THE AIR FORCE ARE INCREASED.

271 yea · 108 nay55 not voting or present
Democrat140 yea · 70 nay
Republican131 yea · 38 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 14402

An Act to amend section 8202(a) for title 10, United States Code, to extend for two years the period during which the authorized number for the grades of lieutenant colonel and colonel in the Air Force are increased.

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(0.90): Increasing authorized numbers of senior Air Force officers expands military force structure.

    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 (271)

Nay (108)

Not voting or present (55)

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