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Senate Roll Call 559, 100th Congress · May 13, 1988

TO AMEND S 2355, 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO AUTHORIZE AN INCREASED ROLE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN CURTAILING DRUG SMUGGLING, WITH A PROVISION TO ALLOW NAVY PERSONNEL TO ARREST SUSPECTED DRUG SMUGGLERS OUTSIDE U.S. TERRITORIAL WATERS.

83 yea · 6 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 4 nay
Republican39 yea · 2 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): Expanding the Department of Defense role and authority to arrest drug smugglers expands military deployment.

    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 (87)

Nay (6)

Not voting or present (7)

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