Senate Roll Call 505, 103rd Congress · May 12, 1994
To approve and authorize the use of United States airpower to implement the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exclusion zones around the U.N. designated safe areas in Bosnia-Herzegovina, to protect UNPROFOR forces, and to seek the removal of the arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia-Herzegovina. — S.2042 BY DOLE (R-KS) -- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ARMS EMBARGO, TERMINATION (SENATE AGREED TO MITCHELL AMENDMENT NO. 1696, TO APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE USE OF UNITED STATES AIRPOWER TO IMPLEMENT THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO) EXCLUSION ZONES AROUND THE U.N.-DESIGNATED SAFE AREAS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, TO PROTECT UNPROFOR FORCES, AND TO SEEK THE REMOVAL OF THE ARMS EMBARGO OF THE GOVERNMENT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A bill to remove the United States arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Policy area: International Affairs — 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): Adopting the amendment authorizes U.S. airpower in Bosnia, expanding military intervention.
Tagged by: keyword:nato
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.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Harlan Mathews
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (49)
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Herb Kohl
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (1)
- Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
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