House Roll Call 883, 96th Congress · May 14, 1980

TO AMEND H.R. 6974, FISCAL 1981 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, BY DELETING THE $200 MILLION AIR FORCE PROCUREMENT AUTHORIZATION FOR THE STRATEGIC WEAPONS LAUNCHER. (MOTION FAILED)

119 yea · 297 nay9 not voting or present

Democrat106 yea · 154 nay

Republican15 yea · 145 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6974 ↗

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981

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): Deleting procurement authorization for a strategic weapons launcher reduces military expansion.
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 (123)

Nay (300)

Not voting or present (9)

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