Senate Roll Call 399, 100th Congress · December 4, 1987
TO TABLE THE THURMOND, SC AMENDMENT TO S 9, THE OMNIBUS VETERANS' BENEFITS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT THE MANUFACTURE, SALE, AND POSSESSION OF PLASTIC HANDGUNS.
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 (0.95) Prohibiting plastic handguns is a gun control policy issue, not a military force or war powers policy issue.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) A ban on plastic handguns is a regulatory issue rather than a budgetary spending or revenue proposal.
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 (47)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (44)
- Brockman Adams
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- J. James Exon
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (9)
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- James Terry SanfordDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
- Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
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