Senate Roll Call 588, 100th Congress · June 6, 1988
TO SUSTAIN A POINT OF ORDER AGAINST SJ RES 305, USE OF U.S. ARMED FORCES IN THE PERSIAN GULF, TO PROVIDE THAT THE RESOLUTION IS NOT PRIVILEGED UNDER THE WAR POWERS ACT, THEREBY BLOCKING THE RESOLUTION TO VOTE ON FURTHER MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN THE PERSIAN GULF AFTER 90 DAYS.
54 yea · 31 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat18 yea · 28 nay
Republican36 yea · 3 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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) Sustaining a procedural point of order is a floor procedure vote.
Tagged by: keyword:armed forces,war powers
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)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (31)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (15)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- David Kemp KarnesDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- Pete WilsonDid not vote
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