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House Roll Call 343, 99th Congress · October 30, 1985

TO APPROVE H R 3629, A BILL THAT APPROPRIATES $276 BILLION TO THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.

359 yea · 67 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat186 yea · 58 nay
Republican172 yea · 10 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3629 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriation 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): Appropriating $276 billion for defense expands military spending.

    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 (361)

Nay (68)

Not voting or present (5)

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