Senate Roll Call 471, 100th Congress · March 15, 1988

TO TABLE THE CHAFEE, RI AMENDMENT TO S 1721, INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT ACT, TO ALLOW THE PRESIDENT TEN DAYS, RATHER THAN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS, TO NOTIFY CONGRESS AFTER THE INITIATION OF A COVERT OPERATION.

60 yea · 32 nay8 not voting or present

Democrat45 yea · 3 nay

Republican15 yea · 29 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

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(0.85): Tabling an amendment extending notification deadlines maintains strict 48-hour oversight on 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 (60)

Nay (32)

Not voting or present (8)

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