Senate Roll Call 161, 101st Congress · August 2, 1989
An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel levels for such Department for fiscal years 1990 and 1991, and for other purposes. — TO PASS S 1352, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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): Passage of the defense authorization bill funds and expands military programs and defense capabilities.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Passage of the defense authorization bill expands federal budgetary authorizations.
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 (95)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- 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
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- 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
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (1)
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.Did not vote
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