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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.

53 yea · 37 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 13 nay
Republican16 yea · 24 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.

  • 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)

Nay (37)

Not voting or present (9)

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