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House Roll Call 884, 96th Congress · May 14, 1980

TO AMEND A COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6974, DOD AUTHORIZATION, BY DELETING THE $1.55 BILLION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MX MISSILE PROGRAM AND BASING SYSTEM. (MOTION FAILED)

82 yea · 319 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat78 yea · 173 nay
Republican8 yea · 147 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 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 $1.55 billion for the MX missile program cuts military funding.

    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 (87)

Nay (322)

Not voting or present (23)

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