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Senate Roll Call 550, 100th Congress · May 12, 1988

TO TABLE THE HATFIELD, OR AND KENNEDY, MA AMENDMENT TO S 2355, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO FORBID ALL UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TESTING WHERE EXPLOSION FORCE WOULD BE GREATER THAN 5 KILOTONS; AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS, PROVIDED THE SOVIET UNION ABIDES BY THESE RESTRICTIONS.

57 yea · 39 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 33 nay
Republican37 yea · 6 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2355 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1989

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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Tabling an amendment forbidding underground nuclear testing kills a military restraint measure.

    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 (57)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (4)

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