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House Roll Call 1151, 96th Congress · September 16, 1980

TO SUBSTITUTE FOR WHITE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 8105, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING 9/30/81, SEEKING TO INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR ARMY PERSONNEL AND OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FOR RECRUITMENT PURPOSES BY $51 MILLION. (MOTION FAILED)

66 yea · 329 nay36 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 198 nay
Republican21 yea · 131 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8105

Department of Defense Appropriation 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(0.90): Increases funding for Army recruitment and operations.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Increases spending appropriations by $51 million.

    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 (66)

Nay (330)

Not voting or present (36)

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