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House Roll Call 756, 95th Congress · February 14, 1978

TO PASS H.R. 5503, THE BILL PROVIDING FOR A MORE UNIFORM MILITARY SYSTEM OF APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION, SEPARATION AND RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS.

351 yea · 7 nay69 not voting or present
Democrat233 yea · 5 nay
Republican122 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5503

Defense Officer Personnel Management Act

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 (0.90) Standardizing military personnel management, promotion, and retirement rules is administrative, not military expansion or restraint.

    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 (356)

Nay (7)

Not voting or present (69)

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