Senate Roll Call 412, 100th Congress · December 11, 1987
TO AMEND THE STEVENS, AK AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 395, THE FISCAL 1988 CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS, TO WITHHOLD ALL HUMANITARIAN AID TO THE NICARAGUAN CONTRAS UNLESS THE REBELS PARTICIPATE IN A CEASE-FIRE OR SUCH AID IS DEEMED CONSISTENT WITH THE ARIAS PEACE PLAN BY A MAJORITY OF THE FIVE TREATY SIGNATORIES.
38 yea · 56 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat34 yea · 15 nay
Republican5 yea · 41 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.
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Withholding aid to the Nicaraguan Contras reduces federal spending on foreign assistance.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (39)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (56)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (5)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- James Terry SanfordDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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