Senate Roll Call 413, 105th Congress · April 30, 1998
To require a certification of United States policy not to support further enlargement of NATO (other than Poland, Hungary, or the Czech Republic) until revision of the Strategic Concept of NATO is completed. — (SENATE REJECTED THE BINGAMAN AMENDMENT NO. 2324, TO REQUIRE A CERTIFICATION OF UNITED STATES POLICY NOT TO SUPPORT FURTHER ENLARGEMENT OF NATO (OTHER THAN POLAND, HUNGARY, AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC) UNTIL REVISION OF THE STRATEGIC CONCEPT OF NATO IS COMPLETED. .)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
23 yea · 76 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 32 nay
Republican9 yea · 43 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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): Pausing NATO enlargement pending strategic review conditions expansion, favoring military restraint.
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 (23)
- John Ashcroft
- Jeff Bingaman
- Dale Bumpers
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Herb Kohl
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Pat Roberts
- Robert Smith
- Robert Torricelli
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (76)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Wayne A. Allard
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Richard J. Durbin
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
Not voting or present (1)
- Jon KylDid not vote
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