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Senate Roll Call 28, 102nd Congress · March 14, 1991

To assure that U.S. tax dollars are not used for the rebuilding of Iraq. — S.578 BY NUNN (D-GA) -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DESERT STORM SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORIZATION AND MILITARY PERSONNEL BENEFITS ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991 DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM RESERVIST LEAVE BANK ACT OF 1991 GULF WAR HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE ACT PERSIAN GULF VETERANS' ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1991 (SENATE FAILED TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT NO. 35, TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF FUNDS FOR THE REBUILDING OF IRAQ.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

0 yea · 98 nayMotion to Table Failed2 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 54 nay
Republican0 yea · 43 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 578 ↗

Department of Defense Desert Storm Supplemental Authorization and Military Personnel Benefits Act for Fiscal Year 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 (0.85) Prohibiting funds for foreign reconstruction in Iraq is not clearly aligned with military restraint or expansion.

    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 (0)

None

Nay (98)

Not voting or present (2)

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