Senate Roll Call 766, 100th Congress · September 30, 1988
TO TABLE THE HELMS, NC AMENDMENT TO HR 4781, FISCAL 1989 DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, TO PREVENT THE DISMANTLING OF ANY POSEIDON SUBMARINES UNLESS THE PRESIDENT CAN CERTIFY TO CONGRESS THAT THE SOVIET UNION HAS DISMANTLED THE KRASNOYARSK RADAR.
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 restraint”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that blocked dismantling Poseidon submarines allows military force reduction.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The amendment concerns submarine dismantling policy, not a direct fiscal axis.
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 (66)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- 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
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (26)
- Christopher S. Bond
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (8)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Rudolph Eli BoschwitzDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
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