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Senate Roll Call 297, 100th Congress · October 1, 1987

TO INVOKE CLOTURE, THEREBY LIMITING DEBATE ON S 1174, THE FISCAL 1988-89 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, IN EFFECT KILLING ALL PENDING AMENDMENTS TO THE BILL. MOTION REJECTED, THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

41 yea · 58 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 52 nay
Republican39 yea · 6 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 (0.80) Procedural vote on cloture for the overall defense bill without clear single-issue direction.

    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 (41)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (1)

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