Senate Roll Call 561, 100th Congress · May 16, 1988

TO TABLE THE HELM, NC AMENDMENT TO S 2355, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION, TO PROHIBIT USE OF FUNDS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE U.S. - U.S.S.R. AGREEMENT OF SOVIET TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN, UNTIL THE PRESIDENT HAS SUBMITTED AN AGREEMENT TO THE SENATE FOR ITS ADVICE AND CONSENT.

63 yea · 30 nay6 not voting or present

Democrat49 yea · 2 nay

Republican14 yea · 29 nay

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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.85): Tabling a hawkish amendment that blocked implementation of the Afghan withdrawal agreement favors military restraint.
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)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (6)

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