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House Roll Call 746, 94th Congress · April 9, 1976

TO AMEND H.R. 12438, BY REDUCING THE OVERSEAS TROOP COMMITTMENT BY 47,000.

88 yea · 275 nay48 not voting or present
Democrat84 yea · 177 nay
Republican15 yea · 106 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12438

Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act, 1977

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 restraint”

    model(0.95): Reducing overseas troop commitments restricts military posture.

    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 (99)

Nay (286)

Not voting or present (48)

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