House Roll Call 260, 98th Congress · July 26, 1983

TO AMEND H.R. 2969 TO PERMIT THE TARGETING OF DEFENSE PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS TO AREAS OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT. (MOTION PASSED)

218 yea · 201 nay13 not voting or present

Democrat154 yea · 97 nay

Republican62 yea · 104 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Targets defense contracts based on local unemployment rather than military capacity or restraint.
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 (219)

Nay (201)

Not voting or present (13)

Ike Franklin AndrewsDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Thomas Stephen FoleyDid not vote
John Paul HammerschmidtDid not vote
Cecil Landau HeftelDid not vote
John J. LaFalceDid not vote
Jerry LewisDid not vote
Edward Rell MadiganDid not vote
Jim MoodyDid not vote
Joel McFee PritchardDid not vote
Gus SavageDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote
Don YoungDid not vote

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