House Roll Call 171, 99th Congress · June 25, 1985

TO AMEND H R 1872 TO PROVIDE THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WITH AUTHORITY TO SUSPEND CONTRACTS, REVISE PAYMENT SCHEDULES, OR SUSPEND OR DEBAR THE CONTRACTOR UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS. (MOTION FAILED)

176 yea · 240 nay15 not voting or present

Democrat149 yea · 85 nay

Republican26 yea · 155 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Grants the Inspector General contract suspension authority, an internal procurement rule.
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 (177)

Nay (241)

Not voting or present (15)

David E. BoniorDid not vote
John B. BreauxDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Hamilton Fish Jr.Did not vote
William Webster FranklinDid not vote
William Herbert Gray IIIDid not vote
Marjorie Sewell HoltDid not vote
Walter Beaman Jones Sr.Did not vote
Thomas Andrew LukenDid not vote
Norman David ShumwayDid not vote
Fernand Joseph St. GermainDid not vote
Allan Byron SwiftDid not vote
Edolphus TownsDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote
George Cornelius WortleyDid not vote

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