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Senate Roll Call 715, 100th Congress · August 5, 1988

TO TABLE THE BRADLEY, NJ AMENDMENT TO HR 4781, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, TO DELETE A PROVISION TO FORBID THE TRANSFER OF THE AEGIS WEAPON SYSTEM TO JAPAN UNLESS JAPAN ALSO PURCHASED THE SHIPS TO CARRY THEM FROM THE UNITED STATES.

20 yea · 75 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 38 nay
Republican8 yea · 37 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4781 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 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 the amendment maintains restrictions on transferring the AEGIS weapon system to Japan.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Weapon transfer conditions for foreign purchases do not directly alter overall US budget spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (20)

Nay (75)

Not voting or present (5)

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