House Roll Call 578, 99th Congress · June 11, 1986

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND ADOPT HR 2591, A BILL AWARDING SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDALS TO JAN SCRUGGS, ROBERT DOUBEK, AND JOHN WHEELER, FOUNDERS OF THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FUND, IN APPRECIATION OF THEIR WORK IN BUILDING THE MEMORIAL. (MOTION FAILED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT NOT VOTING IN FAVOR.)

224 yea · 186 nay22 not voting or present

Democrat188 yea · 45 nay

Republican34 yea · 141 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2591 ↗

A bill to award special congressional gold medals to Jan Scruggs, Robert Doubek, and Jack Wheeler.

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 (0.95) Awarding commemorative medals is a ceremonial measure.
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 (224)

Nay (187)

Not voting or present (22)

Druie Douglas Barnard Jr.Did not vote
John B. BreauxDid not vote
Dan BurtonDid not vote
Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr.Did not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
Robert William DavisDid not vote
John D. DingellDid not vote
Julian C. DixonDid not vote
Charles Wayne DowdyDid not vote
Thomas Joseph DowneyDid not vote
John GrotbergDid not vote
Thomas Forbes HartnettDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
William David LoweryDid not vote
John Rettie McKernan Jr.Did not vote
William Henson Moore IIIDid not vote
George Miller O’BrienDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
Marion Gene SnyderDid not vote
Allan Byron SwiftDid not vote
Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr.Did not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote

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