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House Roll Call 420, 96th Congress · September 12, 1979

TO AGREE TO A SUBSTITUTE TO THE SCHROEDER AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4040 (SEE RC 462). THE MONTGOMERY AMENDMENT RETAINS THE SELECTIVE SERVICE PROVISIONS IN THE BILL BUT CHANGES THE DATES RELATING TO DRAFT REGISTRATION BY ONE DAY. (MOTION FAILED)

163 yea · 252 nay18 not voting or present
Democrat87 yea · 171 nay
Republican75 yea · 80 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.85): Retaining selective service draft registration provisions maintains and expands military readiness machinery.

    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 (164)

Nay (252)

Not voting or present (18)

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