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Senate Roll Call 538, 101st Congress · August 4, 1990

To authorize the transfer of $400,000,000 of the funds authorized to be appropriated for the Strategic Defense Initiative for drug treatment, pregnant women, and veterans health programs. — TO TABLE THE KERRY (D, MA) AMENDMENT TO S 2884, NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT, TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF $400,000,000 OF THE FUNDS AUTHORIZED TO BE APPROPRIATED FOR THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE FOR DRUG TREATMENT, PREGNANT WOMEN, AND VETERANS HEALTH PROGRAMS.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

54 yea · 43 nayMotion to Table Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat17 yea · 36 nay
Republican37 yea · 5 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2884 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 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): Tabling kills an amendment transferring funds away from the Strategic Defense Initiative to domestic programs.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    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 (54)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (3)

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