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Senate Roll Call 73, 101st Congress · June 1, 1989

To express the sense of the Senate that a democratically elected government be in place in Panama before the Senate gives its advice and consent for the nominee for the position of Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission. — TO TABLE THE COATS (R, IN) AMENDMENT TO HR 2072, DIRE EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE GOVERNMENT HOLD DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS BEFORE THE SENATE GIVES ITS APPROVAL OF THE NOMINEE FOR ADMINISTRATOR OF THE PANAMA CANAL TREATY.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

31 yea · 63 nayMotion to Table Failed6 not voting or present
Democrat26 yea · 25 nay
Republican3 yea · 38 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2072 ↗

Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations and Transfers, Urgent Supplementals, and Correcting Enrollment Errors Act of 1989

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 Panama foreign policy has no direct spending 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 (31)

Nay (63)

Not voting or present (6)

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