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Senate Roll Call 230, 101st Congress · October 5, 1989

To provide Federal drug interdiction agencies with the authority to use necessary and appropriate force to compel airborne drug traffickers to land their aircraft. — TO TABLE THE MCCONNELL (R, KY) AMENDMENT TO S 1711, NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY INITIATIVE, TO ALLOW FEDERAL DRUG AGENCIES IN THEIR INTERDICTION EFFORTS TO USE APPROPRIATE FORCE TO CAPTURE DRUG TRAFFICKERS.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

52 yea · 48 nayMotion to Table Agreed to
Democrat39 yea · 15 nay
Republican12 yea · 32 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1711

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 drug interdiction and law enforcement force, not health care coverage.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (52)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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