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House Roll Call 161, 99th Congress · June 20, 1985

TO AMEND THE HOLT SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO H R 1872. THE HOLT AMENDMENT INCREASES THE SDI AUTHORIZATION BY $490 MILLION TO $2.9 BILLION AND REQUIRES THAT ACTIVITIES BE CONSISTENT WITH THE ABM TREATY. THE COURTER AMENDMENT INCREASES THE SDI AUTHORIZATION BY $1.24 BILLION TO $3.7 BILLION. (MOTION FAILED)

104 yea · 315 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 229 nay
Republican101 yea · 85 nay
Other0 yea · 2 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(0.95): Increases SDI funding authorization to $3.7 billion.

    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 (105)

Nay (316)

Not voting or present (12)

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