House Roll Call 500, 95th Congress · September 12, 1977

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 8698, THE BILL DENYING AUTOMATIC ENTITLEMENT TO VETERANS' BENEFITS TO THOSE MEN WITH UPGRADED DISCHARGES PURSUANT TO THE 1977 ADMINISTRATIVE PARDON OF VIETNAM DRAFT EVADERS.

321 yea · 75 nay28 not voting or present

Democrat192 yea · 74 nay

Republican134 yea · 3 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8698 ↗

A bill to deny entitlement to veteran's benefits to certain persons who would otherwise become so entitled solely by virtue of the administrative upgrading under temporarily revised standards of less than honorable discharges for service during the Vietnam era.

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) Denying benefits to draft evaders does not directly expand military power.
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 (328)

Nay (78)

Not voting or present (28)

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