Senate Roll Call 213, 101st Congress · September 28, 1989

Of a technical nature. — TO AMEND THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO HR 3072, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, TO INCREASE THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SHARE FOR FUNDING THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

53 yea · 47 nayAmendment Agreed to

Democrat14 yea · 40 nay

Republican39 yea · 5 nay

Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3072 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990

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): Increasing funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative expands military defense programs.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.90): Increasing funding for military programs increases government 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 (53)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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