Senate Roll Call 395, 100th Congress · December 3, 1987
TO TABLE THE DECONCINI, AZ AMENDMENT TO S 9, THE OMNIBUS VETERANS' BENEFITS BILL, WHICH WOULD DELETE PROVISIONS FROM THE BILL EXEMPTING THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION FROM RANDOM DRUG TESTING PROGRAMS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Service-Disabled Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1987
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) Exemption from federal employee drug testing in the VA does not relate to military force expansion or restraint.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Drug testing rules for federal VA employees do not move along a general fiscal spending axis.
Tagged by: keyword:omnibus
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (29)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Tom Harkin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (67)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Pete V. Domenici
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (4)
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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