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House Roll Call 496, 98th Congress · November 17, 1983

TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H. RES. 4185, DEFENSE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS, TO APPROVE FISCAL YEAR 1984 APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN THE AMOUNT OF $249,820,875,000. (MOTION PASSED)

311 yea · 99 nay24 not voting or present
Democrat162 yea · 83 nay
Republican146 yea · 16 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 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 expansion”

    model(0.90): Approving defense department appropriations expands military funding.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Approving a major defense appropriations bill increases federal spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (311)

Nay (99)

Not voting or present (24)

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