House Roll Call 897, 96th Congress · May 21, 1980

TO AMEND H.R. 6974, DOD AUTHORIZATION, BY PROHIBITING THE SECRETARY FROM USING ANY LAND FOR THE MX/MPS SYSTEM UNTIL HE HAS REPORTED TO CONGRESS AND THE AFFECTED STATES ON THE SPECIFIC SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE SYSTEM, METHODS OF ADDRESSING THE IMPACTS, AND THE FEASIBILITY OF BASING PARTS OF THE SYSTEM IN MORE THAN TWO STATES. (MOTION FAILED)

135 yea · 268 nay27 not voting or present

Democrat104 yea · 147 nay

Republican31 yea · 120 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(0.90): Prohibiting land use for the MX missile system restricts 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 (137)

Nay (268)

Not voting or present (27)

John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Les AuCoinDid not vote
Don Leroy BonkerDid not vote
George E. Brown Jr.Did not vote
Barber Benjamin Conable Jr.Did not vote
Charles Coles Diggs Jr.Did not vote
Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
Robert Blackford DuncanDid not vote
Hamilton Fish Jr.Did not vote
Thomas Stephen FoleyDid not vote
Chuck GrassleyDid not vote
George Vernon HansenDid not vote
Elizabeth HoltzmanDid not vote
Stanley Nelson LundineDid not vote
Marc Lincoln MarksDid not vote
Marvin Dawson MathisDid not vote
Mike McCormackDid not vote
Robert Cameron McEwenDid not vote
Joseph George MinishDid not vote
James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
Donald Lawrence RitterDid not vote
David Alan StockmanDid not vote
Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
Albert Conrad UllmanDid not vote
Lionel Van DeerlinDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote
John Waldemar WydlerDid not vote

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