Senate Roll Call 272, 102nd Congress · November 23, 1991
A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes. — H.R.2521 BY MURTHA (D-PA) -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1992 (PUB. L. 102-172, APPROVED 11/26/91) (SENATE AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2521, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1992.)
Question before the chamber: On the Conference Report
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1992
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): A yes vote approves funding for the Department of Defense, expanding military spending.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.95): A yes vote passes the defense appropriations bill, expanding federal fiscal spending.
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 (66)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Larry E. Craig
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- 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
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- John Seymour
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Harris Wofford
Nay (29)
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Daniel Coats
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan John Dixon
- J. James Exon
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Herb Kohl
- Carl Levin
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Robert Smith
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (5)
- John B. BreauxDid not vote
- George Hanks BrownDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Tom HarkinDid not vote
- J. Robert KerreyDid not vote
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