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Senate Roll Call 770, 104th Congress · June 4, 1996

A bill to establish a United States policy for the deployment of a national missile defense system, and for other purposes. — S.1635 BY DOLE (R-KS) -- DEFEND AMERICA ACT OF 1996 (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE MOTION TO PROCEED TO CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL.)

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

53 yea · 46 nayCloture Motion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 45 nay
Republican50 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1635 ↗

Defend America Act of 1996

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 expansion”

    model(0.85): Cloture advances consideration of a bill deploying a national missile defense system.

    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 (53)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (1)

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