TO INVOKE CLOTURE, THEREBY LIMITING DEBATE ON THE MOYNIHAN, NY AMENDMENT TO S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, WHICH WOULD EXPRESS THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT U.S. PROTECTION OF "REFLAGGED" KUWAITI OIL TANKERS SHOULD BE POSTPONED WHILE DIPLOMATIC MEANS OF ENDING THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR ARE PURSUED. MOTION REJECTED, THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

The measure

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(0.85): Cloture advances an amendment seeking to postpone US naval protection of reflagged Kuwaiti tankers.

  Tagged by: keyword:iraq war

  Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

• TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

  excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Measure addresses naval escort operations in the Persian Gulf, not commercial trade policy.

  Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance

  Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

• Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

  excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Measure expresses a non-binding sense of Congress on naval deployments, not fiscal policy.

  Tagged by: keyword:omnibus

  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.