House Roll Call 1146, 95th Congress · June 28, 1978

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 11888, THE BILL LOWERING THE MINIMUM SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY RATE REQUIRED FOR ELIGIBILITY FOR DEPENDENCY ALLOWANCES FROM 50% TO 40%.

385 yea · 16 nay28 not voting or present

Democrat247 yea · 16 nay

Republican138 yea · 0 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 11888 ↗

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to change the minimum disability rating a veteran must have in order to receive additional compensation for dependents from 50 per centum to 40 per centum.

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): Expands eligibility for veterans' dependency allowances by lowering disability thresholds.
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 (388)

Nay (16)

Not voting or present (28)

William Vollie Alexander Jr.Did not vote
William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
Shirley Anita ChisholmDid not vote
John Herman DentDid not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Walter FlowersDid not vote
Michael Joseph HarringtonDid not vote
Kenneth Lamar HollandDid not vote
James Paul JohnsonDid not vote
Robert Charles KruegerDid not vote
Joseph Anthony LeFanteDid not vote
Robert Louis LeggettDid not vote
Gillis William LongDid not vote
Paul Norton McCloskey Jr.Did not vote
Dale MilfordDid not vote
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr.Did not vote
Shirley Neil PettisDid not vote
Albert Harold QuieDid not vote
Thomas Fisher RailsbackDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
Daniel David RostenkowskiDid not vote
Philip Edward RuppeDid not vote
George Edward ShipleyDid not vote
Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
Charles William Whalen Jr.Did not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote

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