Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1995
Public Law 103-307 · H.R. 4453 · 103rd Congress · began in the House
Signed by Bill Clinton (D) on Aug 23, 1994 · Armed Forces and National Security
Sponsor: Rep. Bill Hefner (D-NC-8)
Cosponsors: None
Passage votesYeaNay
- HouseVoice vote
- SenateRecorded vote: 95 yea, 5 nay95–5
Data notes
The final version of the law, as each chamber passed it. A chamber that passed it by voice vote or unanimous consent has no count. “Method not stated” means the record does not say how the chamber voted. Where the record has a member-by-member vote, the “Who voted for it” section shows who voted yea.
Summary
The Congressional Research Service’s plain-language summary of what the law does.
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1995 - Appropriates funds for FY 1995 for military construction functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) in specified amounts for: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force; (2) military construction, DOD (including a transfer of funds); (3) military construction for the Army and Air National Guards; (4) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force Reserves (with a transfer of funds for the Army Reserve); (5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure; (6) family housing for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force; (7) family housing, DOD; and (8) the Base Realignment and Closure Accounts, Parts I through III (including a transfer of funds).
(Sec. 101) Specifies authorized uses and prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act, including a prohibition on the use of funds for military construction in the U.S. territories and possessions to award a contract exceeding $1 million to a foreign contractor.
(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide certain congressional advance notification of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction amounts for such exercise are expected to exceed $100,000.
(Sec. 114) Provides for the transfer of certain funds from the Military Family Housing Management Account to the appropriations for family housing.
(Sec. 119) Provides for the transfer of lapsed unobligated military construction and family housing funds into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense account.
(Sec. 120) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on actions proposed by DOD to encourage other member nations of NATO, Japan, and Korea to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States.
(Sec. 121) Authorizes a specified transfer of funds from the DOD Base Closure Account.
(Sec. 122) Includes damage from the 1993 Guam earthquake within authorized uses of FY 1993 appropriations for family housing, Navy and Marine Corps.
(Sec. 123) Cancels a specified amount of funding for DOD's military construction and family housing accounts during FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to allocate such amounts for procurement and procurement-related expenses.
(Sec. 124) Requires compliance with the Buy American Act for all uses of funds appropriated under this Act.
(Sec. 126) Makes ineligible for the receipt of any contract or subcontract made with funds appropriated under this Act any person who intentionally affixes a "Made in America" label to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that was not made in the United States.
(Sec. 127) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Seattle, Washington, all rights and interest to the Naval Reserve Center in Seattle. Requires a suitable replacement for the Center.
(Sec. 128) Directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Department of the Interior the Army Research Laboratory facility in Woodbridge, Virginia.
Who voted for it
Every senator of the 103rd Congress on the ideology compass. Highlighted: the 95 who voted yea on final passage. Faded: everyone else, including those who voted nay, did not vote, or had not yet taken office.
95 yea5 nay
Democrats who voted yea(56)
- Sen. Paul WellstoneD-MN
- Sen. Howard MetzenbaumD-OH
Sen. Russell FeingoldD-WI
Sen. Barbara BoxerD-CA- Sen. Paul SimonD-IL
- Sen. Paul SarbanesD-MD
- Sen. George MitchellD-ME
- Sen. Claiborne PellD-RI
- Sen. Donald RiegleD-MI
Sen. Patty MurrayD-WA
Sen. Patrick LeahyD-VT- Sen. Daniel MoynihanD-NY
Sen. Tom HarkinD-IA- Sen. David PryorD-AR
- Sen. Carol Moseley BraunD-IL
Sen. Daniel AkakaD-HI- Sen. Dale BumpersD-AR
Sen. Ted KennedyD-MA
Sen. Carl LevinD-MI
Sen. Jay RockefellerD-WV- Sen. Tom DaschleD-SD
Sen. Daniel InouyeD-HI- Sen. James SasserD-TN
Sen. Kent ConradD-ND- Sen. Harlan MathewsD-TN
Sen. Joseph BidenD-DE- Sen. Bill BradleyD-NJ
Sen. Barbara MikulskiD-MD
Sen. John KerryD-MA
Sen. Robert ByrdD-WV
Sen. Christopher DoddD-CT- Sen. Harris WoffordD-PA
- Sen. John GlennD-OH
Sen. Dianne FeinsteinD-CA- Sen. Wendell FordD-KY
Sen. Byron DorganD-ND
Sen. Harry ReidD-NV
Sen. Frank LautenbergD-NJ- Sen. Fritz HollingsD-SC
Sen. Max BaucusD-MT- Sen. Richard BryanD-NV
- Sen. Bob GrahamD-FL
- Sen. John JohnstonD-LA
- Sen. John BreauxD-LA
- Sen. Dennis DeConciniD-AZ
- Sen. Charles RobbD-VA
Sen. Jeff BingamanD-NM
Sen. Herb KohlD-WI- Sen. David BorenD-OK
Sen. Joseph LiebermanD-CT- Sen. Ben CampbellD-CO
- Sen. Robert KerreyD-NE
- Sen. James ExonD-NE
- Sen. Samuel NunnD-GA
- Sen. Howell HeflinD-AL
Sen. Richard ShelbyD-AL
Republicans who voted yea(39)
- Sen. Jim JeffordsR-VT
- Sen. Mark HatfieldR-OR
- Sen. John ChafeeR-RI
- Sen. David DurenbergerR-MN
Sen. Arlen SpecterR-PA- Sen. William CohenR-ME
- Sen. Robert PackwoodR-OR
- Sen. Nancy KassebaumR-KS
Sen. Ted StevensR-AK- Sen. John DanforthR-MO
Sen. Pete DomeniciR-NM
Sen. John WarnerR-VA
Sen. Kit BondR-MO- Sen. Slade GortonR-WA
- Sen. Alfonse D’AmatoR-NY
Sen. Richard LugarR-IN
Sen. Thad CochranR-MS- Sen. Conrad BurnsR-MT
- Sen. Alan SimpsonR-WY
Sen. Kay HutchisonR-TX
Sen. Robert BennettR-UT
Sen. Daniel CoatsR-IN
Sen. Chuck GrassleyR-IA- Sen. Strom ThurmondR-SC
- Sen. Frank MurkowskiR-AK
Sen. Orrin HatchR-UT- Sen. Connie MackR-FL
- Sen. Paul CoverdellR-GA
Sen. Mitch McConnellR-KY- Sen. Robert DoleR-KS
- Sen. Larry PresslerR-SD
Sen. Trent LottR-MS- Sen. Phil GrammR-TX
- Sen. Dirk KempthorneR-ID
Sen. Larry CraigR-ID- Sen. Don NicklesR-OK
- Sen. Malcolm WallopR-WY
- Sen. Lauch FairclothR-NC
- Sen. Jesse HelmsR-NC
Data notes
The Senate’s recorded vote on the final version of the law (roll call 667 in Voteview), matched to the vote the record cites and checked against its totals. Positions are each member’s DW-NOMINATE score for that Congress, as on the Ideology page; left to right is more liberal to more conservative. Paired and announced yea votes count as yea. Lists follow the compass, most liberal first. A name links to a profile only for members of the current Congress. A law passed by voice vote or unanimous consent has no member list, and neither does a vote Voteview has not yet recorded.
Committees
The committees the bill was sent to, and what each did with it.
Appropriations Committee · House · markup by, referred to, reported original measureSubcommittee: Military Construction Subcommittee
Data notes
A committee links to its page only where it exists in the current Congress; older and renamed committees are named without a link.
Timeline
From introduction to signing, newest first: the committees, the floor and the president. 77 actions.
- Aug 23, 1994Became lawBecame law · Became Public Law No: 103-307.
- Became lawBecame law · Signed by President.
- Aug 12, 1994PresidentPresident · Presented to President.
- Aug 10, 1994Resolving differencesResolving differences · Senate receded from its amendment, number 29, by Unanimous Consent.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Senate agreed to House amendments to Senate amendment numbers 6, 10, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 31, and 32 by Unanimous Consent.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 95-5. Record Vote No: 272.Senate roll call 272
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 95-5. Record Vote No: 272.Senate roll call 272
- Aug 1, 1994Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference papers: Senate report and managers' statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 32 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 31 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 32.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House insist on its disagreement to the Senate amendment No. 29 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 31.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 27 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House insist on its disagreement to the Senate amendment No. 29.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 24 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 27.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 23 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 24.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 20 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 23.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 19 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 20.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 16 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 19.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 15 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 16.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur in the Senate amendment No. 14 Agreed to without objection.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Hefner moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 15.
Data notes
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Official record
The bill’s full text and every action, including introduction and committee steps, are on Congress.gov. Data through Oct 7, 2026.