Senate Roll Call 529, 100th Congress · April 25, 1988
TO PASS HR 1811, ATOMIC VETERANS COMPENSATION ACT, A BILL TO COMPENSATE VETERANS, AND THEIR SURVIVORS, WHO PARTICIPATED IN U.S. NUCLEAR TESTS OR IN THE OCCUPATION OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, AND WHO SUFFER FROM DISEASES ATTRIBUTABLE TO RADIATION EXPOSURE.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Radiation-Exposed Veterans Compensation 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Compensating atomic veterans does not expand or restrain military war powers or military capacity.
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 (52)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- John Cornelius Stennis
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (30)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (18)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Alan John DixonDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Jacob Chic HechtDid not vote
- David Kemp KarnesDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.Did not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
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