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House Roll Call 160, 99th Congress · June 20, 1985

TO AMEND THE PRICE AMENDMENT TO H R 1872. THE MAVROULES AMENDMENT FREEZES THE SDI PROGRAM AT THE 1985 LEVEL OF $1.4 BILLION AND PROHIBITS THE USE OF FUNDS FOR ANY NON-LABORATORY TESTS OF SDI TECHNOLOGY. (MOTION FAILED)

155 yea · 268 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat150 yea · 89 nay
Republican6 yea · 180 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): Freezes SDI funding at $1.4 billion and prohibits non-laboratory testing.

    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 (157)

Nay (270)

Not voting or present (6)

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