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House Roll Call 425, 96th Congress · September 13, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4040 BY STRIKING THE $670 MILLION AUTHORIZATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MX MISSILE. (MOTION FAILED)

86 yea · 305 nay34 not voting or present
Democrat83 yea · 167 nay
Republican6 yea · 141 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 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 restraint”

    model(0.95): Striking funding for the MX missile reduces defense spending and weapons development.

    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 (90)

Nay (310)

Not voting or present (34)

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