Senate Roll Call 728, 100th Congress · August 11, 1988
TO PASS HR 4781, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, A BILL TO PROVIDE APPROXIMATELY $282.6 BILLION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MILITARY PROGRAMS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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(0.95): Passing the defense appropriations bill funds military operations and defense programs.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Passes DoD appropriations providing $282.6B in 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 (92)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (4)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- J. James ExonDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
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