Senate Roll Call 558, 100th Congress · May 13, 1988
TO TABLE THE GRAMM, TX AMENDMENT TO S 2355, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO DELETE A CLAUSE OF THE CURRENT LAW MANDATING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO PURCHASE U.S. COAL FOR SHIPMENT TO U.S. BASES IN EUROPE.
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.
- Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Fossil fuel priority”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that deletes a coal purchasing mandate preserves support for coal.
Tagged by: keyword:coal
Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Coal procurement rules are a domestic trade/energy issue, not a military policy issue.
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 (54)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (37)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (9)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Jacob Chic HechtDid not vote
- David Kemp KarnesDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
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