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Senate Roll Call 556, 100th Congress · May 13, 1988

TO TABLE THE WALLOP, WY AMENDMENT TO S 2355, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BILL, TO ALLOCATE $100 MILLION OF AUTHORIZED FUNDS FOR THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE SDI TO COMMENCE DEPLOYMENT OF AN ACCIDENTAL LAUNCH PROTECTION SYSTEM TO STOP UNAUTHORIZED MISSILE RELEASE.

56 yea · 37 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat46 yea · 4 nay
Republican10 yea · 33 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 restraint”

    model(0.90): Tabling an amendment allocating SDI funds to commence deployment kills a military expansion effort.

    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 (56)

Nay (37)

Not voting or present (7)

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