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House Roll Call 162, 99th Congress · June 20, 1985

TO AMEND THE PRICE AMENDMENT TO H R 1872. THE DICKS AMENDMENT REDUCES THE SDI AUTHORIZATION FROM $2.5 BILLION TO $2.1 BILLION AND LIMITS THE AMOUNT AVAILABLE TO FOUR PROGRAMS THAT MIGHT VIOLATE THE ABM TREATY TO 1985 LEVELS.

195 yea · 221 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat183 yea · 50 nay
Republican14 yea · 172 nay
Other0 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 authorization to $2.1 billion and limits ABM-violating tests.

    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 (197)

Nay (223)

Not voting or present (13)

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