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House Roll Call 547, 97th Congress · July 22, 1982

TO AMEND THE ZABLOCKI AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6030 WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. THE ZABLOCKI AMENDMENT DELETES $54 MILLION IN AUTHORIZATIONS FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF BINARY CHEMICAL MUNITIONS AND BARS USE OF ANY AUTHORIZED FUNDS THEREFOR. THE COURTER AMENDMENT PROHIBITS THE USE OF AUTHORIZED FUNDS FOR BINARY CHEMICAL WEAPONS UNLESS FOR EACH NEW BINARY CHEMICAL WEAPON PRODUCED, AN EQUIVALENT NUMBER OF UNITARY CHEMICAL MUNITIONS FROM THE EXISTING ARSENAL BE RENDERED PERMANENTLY USELESS FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. THE COURTER AMENDMENT ALSO EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD PROMOTE NEGOTIATIONS FOR A TREATY ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS. (MOTION FAILED)

192 yea · 225 nay16 not voting or present
Democrat73 yea · 152 nay
Republican118 yea · 72 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 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 expansion”

    model(0.85): Allowing conditional chemical weapons production replaces a total ban.

    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 (192)

Nay (226)

Not voting or present (16)

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