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Senate Roll Call 284, 100th Congress · September 29, 1987

TO TABLE THE GRAMM, TX AMENDMENT TO S 1174, THE FISCAL 1988-89 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, WHICH WOULD EXEMPT MILITARY CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS UNDER $250,000 FORMERLY $2000 FROM THE DAVIS-BACON ACT THAT REQUIRES EMPLOYEES TO BE PAID AT LEAST LOCALLY COMPETITIVE WAGES.

56 yea · 41 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 6 nay
Republican10 yea · 35 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 (0.90) Davis-Bacon wage standards on military contracts concern labor policy, not military capacity.

    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 (57)

Nay (41)

Not voting or present (2)

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