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House Roll Call 647, 98th Congress · May 23, 1984

TO AMEND H.R. 5167 TO PROVIDE THAT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF PROCUREMENT AUTHORITY COULD NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL APPROPRIATED FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984 BY MORE THAN 6.5 PERCENT. (MOTION FAILED)

173 yea · 250 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat143 yea · 111 nay
Republican29 yea · 138 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5167

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985

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): Capping military procurement growth limits military expansion.

    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 (173)

Nay (251)

Not voting or present (9)

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