Senate Roll Call 228, 101st Congress · October 5, 1989
To provide authority for the President to use the armed forces of the United States to secure the removal of General Manuel Antonio Noriega from his illegal control of the Republic of Panama. — TO TABLE THE HELMS (R, NC) AMENDMENT TO S 1711, NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY INITIATIVE, TO ALLOW THE PRESIDENT TO USE THE MILITARY TO REMOVE GENERAL MANUEL NORIEGA FROM POWER IN PANAMA.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to implement the President's 1989 National Drug Control Strategy.
Policy area: Health — 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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Measure concerns military force in Panama, which is unrelated to health care coverage.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”
model(0.90): Tabling kills an amendment authorizing the President to use military force in Panama, favoring restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:armed forces
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (74)
- Brockman Adams
- 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
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- 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.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (25)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Terry Sanford
- Richard C. Shelby
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (1)
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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