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House Roll Call 129, 95th Congress · April 25, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 5970, A BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR FISCAL 1978, BY REDUCING THE PRESENT OVERSEAS TROOP STRENGTH BY 17,000 AND BY REDUCING THE PROJECTED END-STRENGTH TROOP LEVEL BY 50,000.

88 yea · 301 nay30 not voting or present
Democrat82 yea · 185 nay
Republican11 yea · 122 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5970 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act, 1978

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.90): Cuts troop levels, reducing military spending and budget requirements.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (94)

Nay (309)

Not voting or present (30)

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