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House Roll Call 153, 99th Congress · June 18, 1985

TO AMEND THE MAVROULES SUBSTITUTE FOR 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 MAVROULES SUBSTITUTE LIMITS MX MISSILE DEPLOYMENT TO 40 MISSILES AND REDUCES THE MX AUTHORIZATION TO $921 MILLION FOR BASING COSTS FOR THE 40 MISSILES. THE COURTER AMENDMENT: REDUCES MX MISSILE PROCUREMENT FROM 21 MISSILES TO 12 IN FISCAL YEAR 1986; REDUCES PROCUREMENT FUNDING FOR THE PROGRAM BY $228 MILLION; AND LIMITS DEPLOYMENT TO 50 MISSILES IN EXISTING SILOS. (MOTION FAILED)

182 yea · 234 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat34 yea · 205 nay
Republican151 yea · 34 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.85): A yes vote raises the MX missile deployment limit to 50 relative to the 40 limit.

    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 (186)

Nay (241)

Not voting or present (6)

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