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Senate Roll Call 119, 100th Congress · May 21, 1987

TO AMEND HR 1827, THE FISCAL 1987 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, TO REQUIRE THAT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE BE DENIED TO COUNTRIES THAT HAVE NOT RENOUNCED "NECKLACING", A PRACTICE IN WHICH THOSE SUSPECTED OF HAVING GOVERNMENT TIES ARE KILLED BY PLACING ARTICLES AROUND THEIR NECKS AND IGNITING THEM.

77 yea · 15 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 11 nay
Republican38 yea · 5 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1827

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1987

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Conditioning foreign aid on human rights practices is a policy fight, unclear on fiscal axis.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (77)

Nay (16)

Not voting or present (7)

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