Senate Roll Call 251, 103rd Congress · September 9, 1993
To reduce the amount provided for ballistic missile defense programs and to allocate the total amount among the ballistic missile defense programs and program elements. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE SASSER AMENDMENT NO. 785, TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT PROVIDED FOR BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS AND TO ALLOCATE THE TOTAL AMOUNT AMONG THE BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS AND PROGRAM ELEMENTS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994
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 restraint”
model(0.95): Reducing spending on ballistic missile defense programs represents military 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 (50)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Byron L. Dorgan
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Harlan Mathews
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (48)
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (2)
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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