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Senate Roll Call 542, 101st Congress · September 11, 1990

To express the sense of the Senate that Saddam Hussein should be tried for war crimes in the event of hostilities between the government of Iraq and the United States. — TO AMEND HR 5241, TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN SHOULD BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES IN THE EVENT OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ AND THE UNITED STATES.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

97 yea · 2 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat52 yea · 2 nay
Republican43 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5241 ↗

Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) A non-binding sense of the Senate resolution on war crimes has no fiscal impact.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (97)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (1)

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