Skip to content
Their Record

Senate Roll Call 178, 102nd Congress · August 2, 1991

To support the use of all necessary means to accomplish the elimination of Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons capability. — (SENATE AGREED TO DOLE AMENDMENT NO. 1040, TO EXPRESS SUPPORT OF CONGRESS FOR THE USE OF ALL NECESSARY MEANS TO ACCOMPLISH THE ELIMINATION OF IRAQ'S CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITY.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

97 yea · 2 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat54 yea · 1 nay
Republican41 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1507

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993

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): Supporting all necessary means to eliminate Iraqi weapons capabilities favors expanded military force.

    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 (97)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (1)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.