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Senate Roll Call 250, 100th Congress · September 17, 1987

TO TABLE THE WARNER, VA AMENDMENT TO THE GLENN, OH AMENDMENT TO S 1174, THE FISCAL 1988-89 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT AWARDING STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE CONTRACTS TO FOREIGN FIRMS EXCEPT WHERE U.S. FIRMS COULD NOT PROVIDE WORK OF "EQUAL COMPETENCE" FOR THE SAME OR A LOWER PRICE. THE GLENN AMENDMENT PROHIBITED SUCH CONTRACTS EXCEPT WHERE U.S. FIRMS COULD NOT PROVIDE "COMPETENT" WORK FOR THE SAME OR A LOWER PRICE, AND WAS LATER ADOPTED BY VOICE VOTE.

50 yea · 45 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 8 nay
Republican8 yea · 37 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1174 ↗

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 (0.85) Concerns domestic preference rules for SDI contracts rather than overall military expansion or restraint.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

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

Yea (51)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (4)

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