House Roll Call 379, 99th Congress · November 20, 1985

TO APPROVE H R 3622 JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF REORGANIZATION, A BILL THAT STREAMLINES THE CHANNELS THROUGH WHICH ADVICE IS GIVEN TO THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH FROM THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF. THE BILL INCREASES THE TERM OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF TO 4 YEARS, CREATES A NEW POSITION CALLED THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN WHO IS THE SECOND RANKING MILITARY OFFICER, AND ALLOWS THE CHAIRMAN TO ADVISE THE PRESIDENT INDEPENDENTLY OF THE OTHER CHIEFS OF STAFF.

383 yea · 27 nay22 not voting or present

Democrat224 yea · 6 nay

Republican158 yea · 21 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 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 Joint Chiefs of Staff advisory channels is administrative reform.
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 (385)

Nay (27)

Not voting or present (22)

Joseph Patrick AddabboDid not vote
William Vollie Alexander Jr.Did not vote
Mario BiaggiDid not vote
William Hill BonerDid not vote
David E. BoniorDid not vote
Robert A. BorskiDid not vote
Sala Galante BurtonDid not vote
Eugene A. ChappieDid not vote
Butler Carson Derrick Jr.Did not vote
Joseph Daniel EarlyDid not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezPresent
Sedgwick William GreenDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
Carroll Hubbard Jr.Did not vote
Robert John LagomarsinoDid not vote
Thomas Gilbert LoefflerDid not vote
Michael Edward LowryDid not vote
Stewart Brett McKinneyDid not vote
Charles Melvin PriceDid not vote
Nick J. Rahall IIDid not vote
Robert Freeman SmithDid not vote
Gus YatronDid not vote

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