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Senate Roll Call 152, 101st Congress · August 1, 1989

To reduce certain authorizations of appropriations for the MX rail garrison program and to increase authorizations for certain other programs. — TO TABLE THE LEVIN (D, MI) AMENDMENT TO S 1352, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT, TO DECREASE FUNDS ALLOCATED TO THE MX RAIL SYSTEM.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

61 yea · 39 nayMotion to Table Agreed to
Democrat21 yea · 33 nay
Republican40 yea · 4 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1352

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991

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): Tabling an amendment to cut MX rail garrison funding preserves the weapons program funding.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) The amendment reallocates authorizations between programs without a clear net impact on total 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 (61)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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