Senate Roll Call 631, 101st Congress · October 26, 1990
A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991 and for other purposes. — TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON HR 5803, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, FISCAL YEAR 1991, TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1991.
Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 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): Appropriating funds for the Department of Defense expands military funding.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): Passing defense appropriations expands overall federal spending and budget allocations.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations act,appropriations
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 (81)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- 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
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- 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
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (18)
- William Lester Armstrong
- William Warren Bradley
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Larry Lee Pressler
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Malcolm Wallop
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (1)
- Rudolph Eli BoschwitzDid not vote
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