Senate Roll Call 259, 102nd Congress · November 20, 1991
To provide for the indexation of cost-of-living adjustments in rates of certain compensation. — S.869 BY CRANSTON (D-CA) -- VETERANS POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER TREATMENT ACT OF 1991 (SENATE REJECTED THE SIMPSON AMENDMENT NO. 1361, TO PROVIDE FOR THE INDEXATION OF COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT IN RATES OF CERTAIN COMPENSATION.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Veterans Health Care Amendments Act of 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Adjusting veterans compensation COLAs is a veterans benefit issue, not military force expansion or restraint.
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 (24)
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Larry E. Craig
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- James M. Jeffords
- Richard G. Lugar
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (71)
- 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
- Robert C. Byrd
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- 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
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (5)
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Kent ConradDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Tom HarkinDid not vote
- J. Robert KerreyDid not vote
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