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House Roll Call 192, 97th Congress · September 15, 1981

TO AMEND H.R. 3380, TO INCREASE THE PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES, BY VARYING THE PAY RAISE FROM 7 TO 22 PERCENT DEPENDING UPON THE RANK, BUT AVERAGING OVERALL AT 14.3 PERCENT. (MOTION FAILED)

170 yea · 232 nay26 not voting or present
Democrat115 yea · 101 nay
Republican55 yea · 133 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3380

Armed Forces Pay Act of 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 expansion”

    model(0.85): Increasing military pay and allowances strengthens military compensation, supporting 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 (172)

Nay (235)

Not voting or present (26)

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