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Senate Roll Call 658, 103rd Congress · August 5, 1994

To prohibit the use of United States Armed Forces in Haiti. — H.R.4606 BY SMITH, NEAL (D-IA) -- DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1995 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1995 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1995 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1995 (PUB. L. 103-333, APPROVED 9/30/94) (SENATE TABLED THE SPECTER AMENDMENT NO. 2460 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 25, LINE 13, TO ESTABLISH A PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES IN HAITI UNLESS THE USE OF FORCE IS AUTHORIZED IN ADVANCE BY CONGRESS, IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT OR EVACUATE U.S. CITIZENS, OR IS VITAL TO U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

63 yea · 31 nayMotion to Table Agreed to6 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 3 nay
Republican15 yea · 28 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4606 ↗

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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(0.90): Tabling a prohibition on using armed forces in Haiti preserves executive authority for military deployment.

    Tagged by: keyword:armed forces

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A rider prohibiting military deployment is a foreign policy issue; fiscal impact is incidental.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (63)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (6)

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