Senate Roll Call 181, 102nd Congress · August 2, 1991
An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1992 and 1993 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities and other national security functions of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal years for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. — (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE THE REID AMENDMENT NO. 1049, TO REQUIRE DISPLAY OF THE POW/MIA FLAG AT FEDERAL BUILDINGS AND THE NATIONAL VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Displaying POW/MIA flags is symbolic and does not expand or restrain military capability.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Displaying POW/MIA flags is a symbolic gesture without significant fiscal policy impact.
Tagged by: keyword: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 (34)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Larry E. Craig
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (60)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Conrad Burns
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Jesse Helms
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- John McCain
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (6)
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Thomas A. DaschleDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- J. Strom ThurmondDid not vote
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