Senate Roll Call 773, 104th Congress · June 19, 1996
To reduce to the level requested by the President the amount authorized to be appropriated for research, development, test, and evaluation for national missile defense. — S.1745 BY THURMOND (R-SC) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PARTNERSHIP ACT MILITARY PERSONNEL STALKING PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION ACT OF 1996 NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY ACT OF 1996 PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY SPECIAL EQUITY ACT OF 1996 ARMED FORCES FORCE STRUCTURES REVIEW ACT OF 1996 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL REFORM ACT OF 1996 DEFENSE AGANIST WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ACT OF 1996 TRAVEL REFORM AND SAVINGS ACT OF 1996 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITY ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION PILOT PROGRAM ACT OF 1996 WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT LAND WITHDRAWAL AMENDMENT ACT PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 (SENATE REJECTED DORGAN AMENDMENT NO. 4048, TO REDUCE FUNDS AUTHORIZED FOR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION FOR NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
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(0.90): Reduces authorized funding for national missile defense research and development.
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 (44)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Judd A. Gregg
- 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
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (53)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Sheila Frahm
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (3)
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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