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House Roll Call 620, 99th Congress · June 26, 1986

TO AMEND THE EDWARDS SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT TO TITLE II, HR 5052, TO PROHIBIT UNITED STATES PERSONNEL FROM ENTERING ANY AREA IN HONDURAS OR COSTA RICA, WITHIN 20 MILES OF THE NICARAGUAN BORDER, FOR THE PURPOSED OF PROVIDING AID OR TRAINING TO THE CONTRAS.

215 yea · 212 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat189 yea · 52 nay
Republican24 yea · 159 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5052 ↗

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1987

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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”

    model(0.90): Restricts US personnel from aiding or training Contras near the border.

    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 (215)

Nay (212)

Not voting or present (7)

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