Skip to content
Their Record

House Roll Call 539, 97th Congress · July 20, 1982

TO AMEND H.R. 6030, BY AUTHORIZING $125 BILLION FOR DEFENSE ($51 BILLION LESS THAN THE AMOUNT PROPOSED IN H.R. 6030). IN ADDITION TO THIS THE DELLUMS AMENDMENT DRASTICALLY CUTS FUNDING FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF MX, PERSHING II OR CRUISE MISSILES, B-1 BOMBERS AND NUCLEAR POWERED AIRCRAFT CARRIERS. (MOTION FAILED)

55 yea · 348 nay25 not voting or present
Democrat55 yea · 164 nay
Republican3 yea · 184 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6030 ↗

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1983

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): Cutting defense spending by $51 billion restricts 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 (58)

Nay (351)

Not voting or present (25)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.