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Senate Roll Call 469, 100th Congress · March 15, 1988

TO INVOKE CLOTURE, THEREBY LIMITING DEBATE ON S 1721, INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT ACT, A BILL TO INCREASE CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF COVERT INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES. MOTION ADOPTED, THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

73 yea · 18 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat46 yea · 2 nay
Republican27 yea · 16 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1721

Intelligence Oversight Act of 1988

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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”

    model(0.90): Cloture advances a bill increasing oversight of military intelligence and covert operations.

    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 (73)

Nay (18)

Not voting or present (9)

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