House Roll Call 402, 99th Congress · December 9, 1985

MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND TO APPROVE H R 1538, A BILL PROVIDING A 3.4 PERCENT COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCE IN FISCAL 1986 FOR VETERANS RECEIVING DISABILITY COMPENSATION AND FOR SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS RECEIVING INDEMNITY COMPENSATION. (MOTION PASSED; 2/3 REQUIRED)

388 yea · 0 nay41 not voting or present

Democrat225 yea · 0 nay

Republican165 yea · 0 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1538 ↗

Veterans' Compensation Rate Increase and Job Training Amendments of 1985

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) Provides COLAs for veterans, which does not alter military force size or war powers.
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 (393)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (41)

Leslie AspinDid not vote
Joe BartonDid not vote
William Hill BonerDid not vote
Don Leroy BonkerDid not vote
Douglas Harry BoscoDid not vote
Frederick C. BoucherDid not vote
John B. BreauxDid not vote
James Thomas BroyhillDid not vote
Beverly Barton Butcher ByronDid not vote
Rodney Dennis ChandlerDid not vote
Eugene A. ChappieDid not vote
Cardiss CollinsDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
William Louis DickinsonDid not vote
Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
Robert GarciaDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
Andrew Poysell IrelandDid not vote
Andrew Jacobs Jr.Did not vote
Thomas Norman KindnessDid not vote
Kenneth Bentley KramerDid not vote
Robert Linligthgow Livingston Jr.Did not vote
Francis Xavier McCloskeyDid not vote
Stewart Brett McKinneyDid not vote
Daniel Andrew MicaDid not vote
Clarence E. MillerDid not vote
John Ripin MillerDid not vote
David Smith MonsonDid not vote
John Thomas MyersDid not vote
Stephen Lybrook NealDid not vote
Charles Melvin PriceDid not vote
Donald Lawrence RitterDid not vote
John RowlandDid not vote
Richard Taylor SchulzeDid not vote
Daniel French Slaughter Jr.Did not vote
Fortney Pete StarkDid not vote
Gene TaylorDid not vote
Robert TorricelliDid not vote
Edolphus TownsDid not vote
Charles Orville WhitleyDid not vote
Edwin Van Wyck ZschauDid not vote

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