Senate Roll Call 551, 100th Congress · May 12, 1988
TO TABLE THE KENNEDY, MA AND HATFIELD, OR AMENDMENT TO S 2355, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO PROHIBIT U.S. FORCES FROM ENTERING HONDURAS OR NICARAGUA FOR COMBAT, UNLESS A WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED BY CONGRESS OR ADVANCED PERMISSION GRANTED FOR THE PRESENCE OF U.S. FORCES TO PROTECT AMERICAN CITIZENS AND TO PROVIDE DEFENSE FOR THE U.S. UNDER MILITARY ATTACK.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 prohibiting US combat forces in Central America blocks military restraint.
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)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- 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
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- 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
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (37)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- 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
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (3)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Jacob Chic HechtDid not vote
- David Kemp KarnesDid not vote
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