House Roll Call 419, 96th Congress · September 12, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4040 BY ESTABLISHING A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE CURRENT DEFENSE MOBILIZATION CAPABILITY OF THE U. S. (MOTION FAILED)

144 yea · 268 nay13 not voting or present

Democrat57 yea · 204 nay

Republican88 yea · 69 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4040 ↗

Department of Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1980

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) Creating a study committee is an informational step that does not alter military posture.
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 (148)

Nay (273)

Not voting or present (13)

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