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Senate Roll Call 339, 100th Congress · October 20, 1987

TO INVOKE CLOTURE, THEREBY LIMITING DEBATE ON THE BYRD, WV-WARNER, VA AMENDMENT TO SJ RES 194, THE WAR POWERS COMPLIANCE RESOLUTION, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE A PRESIDENTIAL REPORT ON U.S. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN THE PERSIAN GULF, THEREBY INSTITUTING THE TIME RESTRICTIONS OF THE WAR POWERS ACT. MOTION ADOPTED, THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

67 yea · 28 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat50 yea · 1 nay
Republican17 yea · 27 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Invoking cloture advances a resolution instituting War Powers Act time restrictions on military involvement.

    Tagged by: keyword:war powers

    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 (67)

Nay (28)

Not voting or present (5)

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