Senate Roll Call 259, 100th Congress · September 22, 1987

TO TABLE THE JOHNSTON, LA AMENDMENT TO S 1174, THE FISCAL 1988-89 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, WHICH WOULD REDUCE THE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE TO $3.7 BILLION FOR FISCAL 1988. MOTION PASSED, VICE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, CASTING THE TIE-BREAKING VOTE.

50 yea · 50 nay

Democrat12 yea · 42 nay

Republican38 yea · 8 nay

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(0.95): Tabling the amendment rejects a proposed funding cut to the Strategic Defense Initiative.
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 (50)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (0)

None

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.