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Senate Roll Call 553, 100th Congress · May 12, 1988

TO TABLE THE SIMON, IL AMENDMENT TO S 2355, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT AUTHORIZED FOR MX INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE ICBM AND TO INCREASE AUTHORIZED AMOUNTS TO THE AIR FORCE, THE ARMY, AND THE NAVY FOR CERTAIN PARTS, MISSILES, AND AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT.

61 yea · 36 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat22 yea · 31 nay
Republican39 yea · 5 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(0.85): Tabling an amendment that cuts funding for the MX missile defeats a reduction in strategic nuclear expansion.

    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 (61)

Nay (36)

Not voting or present (3)

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