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Senate Roll Call 557, 100th Congress · May 13, 1988

TO TABLE THE LEVIN, MI AMENDMENT TO S 2355, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO TRANSFER THE AUTHORIZED FOR THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE SDI, TO CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAMS.

51 yea · 43 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 38 nay
Republican38 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(0.90): Tabling an amendment transferring funds away from SDI protects SDI funding from reduction.

    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 (51)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (6)

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