Senate Roll Call 249, 100th Congress · September 17, 1987
TO AMEND S 1174, THE FISCAL 1988-89 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO PERMIT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO PURCHASE MANUAL TYPEWRITERS FROM THOSE WARSAW PACT COUNTRIES THAT HAVE MOST FAVORED NATION TRADING STATUS WITH THE U.S.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989
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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A typewriter procurement provision does not move military expansion or restraint.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- TradeA yea counts toward “Free trade”
model(0.90): Permitting DoD purchases from MFN Warsaw Pact countries reduces trade barriers, supporting free trade.
Tagged by: keyword:most favored nation
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (53)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul Martin Simon
- John Cornelius Stennis
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (41)
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (6)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- Carl LevinDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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