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House Roll Call 378, 99th Congress · November 20, 1985

AN AMENDMENT TO H R 3622 JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF REORGANIZATION THAT ALLOWS THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF TO ASSIGN UNDIVIDED AUTHORITY TO ONE COMMANDER OF A MILITARY OPERATION, AND TO STREAMLINE THE CHAIN OF COMMAND BETWEEN THE COMMANDER AND THE PRESIDENT.

47 yea · 366 nay20 not voting or present
Democrat32 yea · 201 nay
Republican14 yea · 164 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3622 ↗

Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 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) Reorganizing command structures is internal administrative reform rather than military expansion or restraint.

    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 (48)

Nay (366)

Not voting or present (20)

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