Senate Roll Call 282, 101st Congress · November 2, 1989
A bill to protect the retired pay of certain members of the Armed Forces convicted of an offense under section 2071(b) of title 18, United States Code. — TO PASS S 1816, PROTECTION OF RETIRED PAY OF CONVICTED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to protect the retired pay of certain members of the Armed Forces convicted of an offense under section 2071(b) of title 18, United States Code.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Retirement pay rules for convicted servicemembers do not align with military expansion or restraint.
Tagged by: keyword:armed forces
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”
model(0.85): Protecting retired pay of convicted military members reduces punitive impact, moving toward reform.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (78)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- 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
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Herb Kohl
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- 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
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (17)
- Brockman Adams
- Robert C. Byrd
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- James M. Jeffords
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
Not voting or present (5)
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Thomas A. DaschleDid not vote
- Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
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