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House Roll Call 751, 99th Congress · August 13, 1986

TO AMEND HR 4428, TO REQUIRE THE SECRETARY, CONSISTENT WITH THE ABM TREATY, TO RECONFIGURE THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) PROGRAM AND INITIATE THE DEVELOPMENT, TESTING AND DEPLOYMENT OF SYSTEMS FOR DEFENSE AGAINST ATTACK BY STRATEGIC BALLISTIC MISSILES.

124 yea · 293 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat6 yea · 230 nay
Republican117 yea · 61 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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Mandates development, testing, and deployment of missile defense weapons.

    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 (124)

Nay (293)

Not voting or present (14)

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