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House Roll Call 159, 99th Congress · June 20, 1985

TO AMEND THE PRICE AMENDMENT TO H R 1872. THE PRICE AMENDMENT IS A TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) LANGUAGE THAT INCREASES THE AUTHORIZATION BY $27 MILLION TO $2.5 BILLION. THE DELLUMS AMENDMENT REDUCES THE SDI AUTHORIZATION TO $954 MILLION AND PROHIBITS THE USE OF FUNDS FOR ANY TESTS THAT WOULD POTENTIALLY VIOLATE THE 1972 ABM TREATY. (MOTION FAILED)

102 yea · 320 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat99 yea · 139 nay
Republican3 yea · 182 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 restraint”

    model(0.95): Reduces SDI funding to $954 million and prohibits tests violating the ABM Treaty.

    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 (103)

Nay (322)

Not voting or present (8)

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