Senate Roll Call 285, 100th Congress · September 29, 1987

TO TABLE THE GRAMM, TX AMENDMENT TO S 1174, THE FISCAL 1988-89 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, WHICH WOULD EXEMPT MILITARY SERVICE CONTRACTS UNDER $1 MILLION FORMERLY $2500, FROM THE SERVICE CONTRACTS ACT THAT ESTABLISHES MINIMUM WAGES FOR EMPLOYEES.

67 yea · 30 nay2 not voting or present

Democrat53 yea · 0 nay

Republican15 yea · 30 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Minimum wage exemptions for service 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 (68)

Nay (30)

Not voting or present (2)

William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
Paul Martin SimonDid not vote

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