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Senate Roll Call 263, 100th Congress · September 23, 1987

TO TABLE THE WEICKER, CT AMENDMENT TO S 1174, THE FISCAL 1988-89 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, WHICH WOULD AUTHORIZE $200 MILLION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH.

64 yea · 34 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat25 yea · 27 nay
Republican39 yea · 7 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) Funding for medical research via DoD/NIH does not directly align with 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 (64)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (2)

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