House Roll Call 152, 99th Congress · June 18, 1985

TO AMEND THE DICKINSON AMENDMENT TO H R 1872. THE DICKINSON AMENDMENT HALTS PRODUCTION AND DEPLOYMENT OF MX MISSILES AT 50, AND MAKES FURTHER PRODUCTION AND DEPLOYMENT OF SUCH MISSILES CONTINGENT UPON THE WILLINGNESS OF THE SOVIET UNION TO NEGOTIATE ARMS REDUCTIONS IN GOOD FAITH, AS DETERMINED BY CONGRESS. THE MCCURDY AMENDMENT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT DEPLOYMENT OF MX MISSILES SHOULD BE LIMITED TO NOT MORE THAN 40. (MOTION PASSED)

233 yea · 184 nay5 not voting or present

Democrat204 yea · 36 nay

Republican34 yea · 151 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1872 ↗

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) A yes vote approves a non-binding sense-of-Congress expression.
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 (188)

Not voting or present (5)

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