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House Roll Call 206, 96th Congress · June 13, 1979

TO CLOSE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEETINGS ON S. 429 AT SUCH TIMES AS CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION IS UNDER CONSIDERATION, EXCEPT THAT ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS CAN ATTEND ANY MEETINGS. S. 429 IS FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORIZATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. (MOTION PASSED)

397 yea · 16 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat239 yea · 15 nay
Republican157 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 429 ↗

An act to authorize supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1979 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, and naval vessels for research, development, test, and evaluation for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

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 (0.95) Closing committee meetings for classified info is a procedural transparency decision.

    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 (399)

Nay (16)

Not voting or present (19)

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