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House Roll Call 1220, 95th Congress · July 25, 1978

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS, AS AMENDED, H.R. 11823, THE BILL EXTENDING ELIGIBILITY FOR THE NATIONAL RESERVE'S RETIREMENT BENEFITS TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE NATIONAL RESERVE OR THE NATIONAL GUARD PRIOR TO AUG. 16, 1945, BUT DID NOT SERVE ON ACTIVE DUTY DURING WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR II OR THE KOREAN WAR.

390 yea · 8 nay32 not voting or present
Democrat258 yea · 3 nay
Republican131 yea · 5 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 11823

A bill to amend section 1331 (c) of title 10, United States Code, to allow certain otherwise ineligible reservists to become eligible for retired pay, and for other purposes.

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): Expanding retirement benefits for military reserve members expands military compensation.

    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 (392)

Nay (8)

Not voting or present (32)

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