Senate Roll Call 256, 100th Congress · September 18, 1987
TO TABLE THE HATFIELD, OR AMENDMENT TO S 1174, THE FISCAL 1988-89 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, WHICH WOULD INSTITUTE TIME RESTRICTIONS ON U.S. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN THE PERSIAN GULF, IN ACCORDANCE THE WAR POWERS ACT.
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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”
model(0.90): Tabling the amendment rejects time limits on U.S. military involvement in the Persian Gulf.
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)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (42)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (7)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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