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House Roll Call 115, 97th Congress · July 10, 1981

TO AGREE TO THE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3519 WHICH STRIKES LANGUAGE THAT PERMITS THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TO PROCURE RESEARCH BY GRANTS WHERE CONTRACTS WOULD BE REQUIRED UNDER CURRENT LAW. (MOTION FAILED)

190 yea · 194 nay39 not voting or present
Democrat143 yea · 65 nay
Republican51 yea · 132 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3519

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1982

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(0.75): Restricting DoD's ability to use grants instead of contracts increases procurement oversight.

    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 (194)

Nay (199)

Not voting or present (39)

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