House Roll Call 250, 98th Congress · July 21, 1983

TO AMEND H.R. 2969 BY PROHIBITING EXPENDITURE OF AIR FORCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDS TO CONDUCT FLIGHT TESTS FOR ANTISATELLITE WEAPONS UNTIL AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS. (MOTION FAILED)

142 yea · 275 nay16 not voting or present

Democrat130 yea · 116 nay

Republican10 yea · 158 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2969 ↗

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984

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): Prohibiting funds for testing antisatellite weapons restricts military development.
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 (142)

Nay (275)

Not voting or present (16)

Anthony Lee CoelhoDid not vote
Thomas A. DaschleDid not vote
John D. DingellDid not vote
Julian C. DixonDid not vote
Charles Wayne DowdyDid not vote
Dante Bruno FascellDid not vote
Augustus Freeman HawkinsDid not vote
Cecil Landau HeftelDid not vote
John J. LaFalceDid not vote
Stanley Nelson LundineDid not vote
Ron PaulDid not vote
Carl Dewey PerkinsDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
E. Clay Shaw Jr.Did not vote
Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
Lyle WilliamsDid not vote

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