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House Roll Call 637, 96th Congress · December 12, 1979

TO REJECT CLAUSE 3 OF SECTION 3 OF THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.R. 595, STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MATERIALS, AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF STOCKPILED SILVER. (MOTION PASSED)

272 yea · 122 nay39 not voting or present
Democrat137 yea · 100 nay
Republican132 yea · 22 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 595

An act to authorize certain transactions involving the acquisition and disposal of strategic and critical materials for the National Defense Stockpile.

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 (0.85) Sales of strategic material stockpiles do not cleanly align with military expansion or restraint.

    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 (272)

Nay (122)

Not voting or present (39)

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