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House Roll Call 558, 99th Congress · May 21, 1986

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS S 2416, A BILL RAISING THE CEILING ON 1986 VA MORTGAGE GUARANTEES FROM $17.4 BILLION TO $38.3 BILLION IN ANTICIPATION OF THE DEMAND THROUGH THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. (MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.)

398 yea · 0 nay32 not voting or present
Democrat225 yea · 0 nay
Republican173 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2416

A bill to revise further the limitation applicable to chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, for fiscal year 1986, for the purpose of implementing any order issued by the President for such fiscal year under any law providing for the sequestration of new loan guarantee commitments.

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 (0.85) Raising VA mortgage guarantee ceilings relates to housing policy rather than military posture.

    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 (401)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (32)

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