House Roll Call 739, 99th Congress · August 12, 1986

TO AMEND HR 4428, TO REDUCE THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) AUTHORIZATION FROM $3.4 BILLION TO $2.85 BILLION AND REDUCE THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT SDI FUNDING FROM $371 MILLION TO $279 MILLION.

239 yea · 176 nay12 not voting or present

Democrat205 yea · 30 nay

Republican34 yea · 147 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 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): Reduces spending for Strategic Defense Initiative across defense and energy accounts.
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 (241)

Nay (178)

Not voting or present (12)

John B. BreauxDid not vote
Sala Galante BurtonDid not vote
William Lacy Clay Sr.Did not vote
Julian C. DixonDid not vote
Ronnie Gene FlippoDid not vote
Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
John GrotbergDid not vote
Elwood Haynes HillisDid not vote
Edgar Lanier JenkinsDid not vote
Barbara A. MikulskiDid not vote
Parren James MitchellDid not vote
William Henson Moore IIIDid not vote

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