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House Roll Call 341, 98th Congress · September 28, 1983

TO AMEND H. J. RES. 364 WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. THE LONG SUBSTITUTE REQUIRES THE PRESIDENT TO INVOKE THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION BY THE END OF NOV., OR AT THE END OF ANY MONTH THEREAFTER, UNLESS HE CERTIFIED TO CONGRESS THAT A CEASEFIRE WAS IN EFFECT AND WAS BEING OBSERVED BY ALL PARTIES, AND THAT SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS WAS BEING MADE IN NEGOTIATIONS TO BROADEN THE BASE OF THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT AND TO ACHIEVE A POLITICAL RESOLUTION OF EXISTING DIFFERENCES. (MOTION FAILED)

158 yea · 272 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat141 yea · 116 nay
Republican17 yea · 153 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 364 ↗

Multinational Force in Lebanon Resolution

Policy area: International Affairs — 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(0.90): Requiring War Powers Resolution invocation and cease-fire conditions imposes military restraint on presidential deployment.

    Tagged by: keyword:war powers

    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 (158)

Nay (272)

Not voting or present (3)

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