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House Roll Call 670, 98th Congress · May 30, 1984

TO AMEND H.R. 5167 TO ALLOW NOT MORE THAN TWO FOREIGN BUILT PASSENGER VESSELS TO BE USED FOR SEALIFT MOBILITY BETWEEN U.S. PORTS. (MOTION PASSED)

237 yea · 159 nay31 not voting or present
Democrat174 yea · 66 nay
Republican65 yea · 96 nay
Other1 yea · 0 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 expansion”

    model(0.85): A yes vote permits additional vessels to be used for military sealift mobility.

    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 (240)

Nay (162)

Not voting or present (31)

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