Skip to content
Their Record

Senate Roll Call 46, 105th Congress · April 24, 1997

To strike condition no. 30, relating to chemical weapons in other states. — (SENATE AGREED TO BIDEN AMENDMENT NO. 47, TO STRIKE THE CONDITION TO REQUIRE THAT BEFORE DEPOSITING THE INSTRUMENT OF RATIFICATION, THE PRESIDENT CERTIFIED TO CONGRESS THAT COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE BEEN DETERMINED TO HAVE OFFENSIVE CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRAMS HAVE RATIFIED OR OTHERWISE ACCEDED TO THE CONVENTION.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

71 yea · 29 nayAmendment Agreed to
Democrat45 yea · 0 nay
Republican24 yea · 29 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Res. 75 ↗

An executive resolution to advise and consent to the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, subject to certain conditions.

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(0.80): Striking a condition that delayed Chemical Weapons Convention ratification advances arms control, promoting military restraint.

    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 (71)

Nay (29)

Not voting or present (0)

None

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.