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House Roll Call 1021, 95th Congress · May 24, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 10929 BY STRIKING THE $2.1 BILLION AUTHORIZATION FOR A NUCLEAR-POWERED AIRCRAFT CARRIER (CVN) AND ADDING A $1.5 MILLION AUTHORIZATION FOR A SMALLER, CONVENTIONALLY POWERED AIRCRAFT CARRIER (CVV).

139 yea · 264 nay22 not voting or present
Democrat130 yea · 136 nay
Republican13 yea · 131 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 10929 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act

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): Replacing a large nuclear carrier with a smaller conventional one cuts defense spending.

    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 (144)

Nay (268)

Not voting or present (22)

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