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House Roll Call 249, 95th Congress · May 23, 1977

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 6501, A BILL AMENDING TITLE 38 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE SO AS TO INCREASE THE DISABILITY COMPENSATION FOR THOSE VETERANS DISABLED BY THE LOSS OR LOSS OF USE OF PAIRED EXTREMITIES.

385 yea · 7 nay35 not voting or present
Democrat249 yea · 7 nay
Republican140 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6501

A bill to amend section 360 of title 38, United States Code, to provide increased awards of service-connected compensation to certain veterans who have suffered the loss or loss of use of paired extremities.

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Veterans benefits do not affect military posture or force expansion.

    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 (391)

Nay (7)

Not voting or present (35)

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