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House Roll Call 1108, 96th Congress · August 26, 1980

TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 6974, FISCAL 1981 AUTHORIZATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. (MOTION PASSED)

360 yea · 49 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat206 yea · 49 nay
Republican153 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6974

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981

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(0.95): Authorizing defense spending for the Department of Defense expands military spending.

    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 (362)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (19)

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