Senate Roll Call 560, 100th Congress · May 16, 1988
TO TABLE THE JOHNSTON, LA AND BREAUX, LA AMENDMENT TO S 2355, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO ALLOW OPEN COMPETITION AMONG ALL BIDDERS BASED ON TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION REGARDLESS OF PRIOR CONTRACTUAL EXPERIENCE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CONSTRUCTION OF DDG-51 DESTROYERS.
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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Contracting and competitive bidding rules for destroyer construction do not alter military force posture.
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 (63)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (25)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Kent Conrad
- Alan John Dixon
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (12)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- David Kemp KarnesDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- John F. KerryDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
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