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Senate Roll Call 252, 103rd Congress · September 9, 1993

To express the sense of Congress regarding United States policy towards Somalia. — (SENATE ADOPTED THE BYRD AMENDMENT NO. 790 TO AMENDMENT NO. 782, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BY NOVEMBER 15, 1993, SEEK AND RECEIVE CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATIONS IN ORDER FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF UNITED STATES FORCES TO SOMALIA TO CONTINUE.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

90 yea · 7 nayAmendment Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat52 yea · 2 nay
Republican36 yea · 5 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1298 ↗

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Non-binding sense of Congress resolutions do not directly alter policy.

    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 (90)

Nay (7)

Not voting or present (3)

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