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House Roll Call 378, 98th Congress · October 20, 1983

TO RECOMMIT H.R. 2968 TO THE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE WITH INSTRUCTIONS THAT IT BE REPORTED BACK FORTHWITH CONTAINING AN AMENDMENT THAT DEFERS THE HALT TO U.S. SUPPORT FOR NICARAGUAN OPPOSITION UNTIL THE SANDINISTAS STOP INTERFERENCE WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS AND JOIN AN AGREEMENT BASED ON THE CONTADORA 21-POINT DOCUMENT OF OBJECTIVES. (MOTION FAILED)

193 yea · 223 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 208 nay
Republican153 yea · 17 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2968 ↗

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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(0.90): Deferring the halt to US support for Nicaraguan opposition continues military involvement.

    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 (198)

Nay (227)

Not voting or present (8)

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