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House Roll Call 1224, 95th Congress · July 25, 1978

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS, AS AMENDED, H.R. 11890, THE BILL PROVIDING FOR AN AUTOMATIC PRESUMPTION OF SERVICE-CONNECTED DEATH FOR VETERANS THAT WERE RATED TOTALLY AND PERMANENTLY SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABLED FOR A PERIOD OF LEAST TEN YEARS. H.R. 11890 APPLIES THIS PRESUMPTION TO THE DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION.

393 yea · 9 nay28 not voting or present
Democrat254 yea · 9 nay
Republican138 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 11890 ↗

A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that the survivors, of a veteran who was rated totally and permanently service-connected disabled for a period of at least ten years would be entitled to dependency and indemnity compensation as though the veteran had died from a service-connected disability.

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 eligibility for veterans' survivor benefits increases military benefits.

    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 (395)

Nay (9)

Not voting or present (28)

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