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House Roll Call 471, 98th Congress · November 15, 1983

TO AMEND THE YOUNG MOTION TO ORDER THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON THE ORIGINAL MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES TO INSIST ON THE HOUSE POSITION ON TWO SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 4185 TO THE USE OF FUNDS PROVIDED IN THE BILL TO OBTAIN ANIMALS TO BE USED FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF MEDICAL TRAINING AND TO INSIST ON ITS DISAGREEMENT TO THAT PART OF A SENATE AMENDMENT THAT PROVIDES $124.4 MILLION FOR PRODUCTION FACILITIES AND PROCUREMENT OF CHEMICAL MUNITIONS. THE PORTER AMENDMENT INSTRUCTS THE CONFEREES TO DELETE FUNDING FOR NERVE GAS PRODUCTION. (MOTION PASSED)

258 yea · 166 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat195 yea · 59 nay
Republican61 yea · 106 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4185 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriation 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(0.90): Instructing conferees to delete funding for nerve gas production promotes military 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 (258)

Nay (166)

Not voting or present (10)

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