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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.

60 yea · 37 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat18 yea · 35 nay
Republican42 yea · 2 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 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)

Nay (37)

Not voting or present (3)

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