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Senate Roll Call 725, 100th Congress · August 10, 1988

TO AMEND THE BYRD, WV AMENDMENT TO HR 4781, FISCAL DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, TO PROVIDE THE NICARAGUAN CONTRAS WITH $27.14 MILLION IN HUMANITARIAN AID AND TO SET UP PROCEDURES FOR CONGRESS TO CONSIDER RELEASE OF UP TO $16.5 MILLION IN MILITARY AID.

49 yea · 47 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 5 nay
Republican1 yea · 44 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 expansion”

    model(0.90): Providing foreign aid and procedures for releasing military aid expands foreign defense involvement.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Providing millions of dollars in foreign assistance increases overall federal 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 (49)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (2)

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