Jeff Bingaman on Defense & War Powers

DemocratNM

Defense & War Powers615 votes · 73.2/100 consistent

Military restraintMilitary expansion

1,105 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Defense & War Powers. 615 of them counted toward the score above: 337 toward “Military expansion” and 278 toward “Military restraint”.

The other 490 did not count: 473 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 17 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
1983-07-13	TO TABLE THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT TO S. 675 TO DELETE FUNDING FOR THE B-1B BOMBER AIRCRAFT, AND TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE STEALTH BOMBER PROGRAM. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11S. 675 · 98th Congress	Nay	Military restraint
1983-07-13	TO TABLE THE PRYOR AMENDMENT TO S. 675 TO PROHIBIT THE PRODUCTION OF LETHAL BINARY CHEMICAL MUNITIONS AND RELATED PRODUCTION, FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT AND PRECURSOR CHEMICALS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11S. 675 · 98th Congress	Nay	Military restraint
1983-07-12	(CONTINUED) TO AMEND S. 675. THE SPECTER AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT IT IS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOVIET UNION SHOULD MEET AT THE EARLIEST PRACTICAL TIME TO DISCUSS MAJOR ISSUES IN U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS AND TO WORK FOR THE REALIZATION OF MUTUAL, EQUITABLE AND VERIFIABLE REDUCTIONS IN NUCLEAR ARMS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11S. 675 · 98th Congress	Yea	Military restraint
1983-07-12	TO AMEND S. 675 TO PERMIT THE USE OF FUNDS FOR PROJECT 82-D-109, IF SUCH PROJECT IS CERTIFIED AS BEING ESSENTIAL TO NATIONAL SECURITY. THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE BUILDING OF PRODUCTION FACILITIES FOR A 155 MILLIMETER ARTILLERY FIRED ATOMIC PROJECTILE WEAPON. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11S. 675 · 98th Congress	Nay	Military restraint
1983-07-12	TO REQUEST THE ATTENDANCE OF ABSENT SENATORS DURING CONSIDERATION OF S. 675, A BILL AUTHORIZING FUNDS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984. (MOTION PASSED)S. 675 · 98th Congress	Yea	Direction not readable

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Military restraint / Military expansion axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.