House Roll Call 737, 99th Congress · August 12, 1986

TO AMEND HR 4428, TO REDUCE THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SDI AUTHORIZATION FROM $3.4 BILLION TO $1 BILLION, PROHIBIT STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) ACTIVITIES THAT WOULD VIOLATE THE ANTI BALLISTIC MISSILE (ABM) TREATY, AND PROHIBIT CERTAIN TYPES OF EXPERIMENTS.

114 yea · 302 nay11 not voting or present

Democrat114 yea · 123 nay

Republican1 yea · 179 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4428 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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(0.95): Cuts Strategic Defense Initiative funding and restricts ABM treaty-violating activities.
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 (116)

Nay (304)

Not voting or present (11)

John B. BreauxDid not vote
Sala Galante BurtonDid not vote
William Lacy Clay Sr.Did not vote
Julian C. DixonDid not vote
Thomas Stephen FoleyDid not vote
Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
John GrotbergDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
Edgar Lanier JenkinsDid not vote
William Henson Moore IIIDid not vote
Robert Freeman SmithDid not vote

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