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House Roll Call 255, 98th Congress · July 26, 1983

TO AMEND THE SCHROEDER AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2969 WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. THE SCHROEDER AMENDMENT REDUCES THE NUMBER OF TROOPS WE HAVE STATIONED ABROAD DOWN TO THE FISCAL YEAR 1980 LEVEL, OR BY ABOUT 29,000. THE SKELTON SUBSTITUTE EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT OUR ALLIES HAVE NOT DONE ENOUGH TO PROMOTE THEIR COMMON DEFENSE AND THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD ENCOURAGE OUR ALLIES TO ACCEPT THEIR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES. (MOTION PASSED)

329 yea · 82 nay20 not voting or present
Democrat171 yea · 75 nay
Republican156 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 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 expansion”

    model(0.85): Replaces mandatory foreign troop cuts with a non-binding sense of Congress.

    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 (330)

Nay (83)

Not voting or present (20)

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