Senate Roll Call 48, 105th Congress · April 24, 1997

To strike condition no. 33, relating to effective verification. — (SENATE AGREED TO BIDEN AMENDMENT NO. 49, TO STRIKE THE CONDITION REQUIRING THE PRESIDENT TO CERTIFY TO CONGRESS THAT COMPLIANCE WITH THE CONVENTION IS EFFECTIVELY VERIFIABLE.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

66 yea · 34 nayAmendment Agreed to

Democrat45 yea · 0 nay

Republican19 yea · 34 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.70) Removing verification obstacles to a chemical weapons treaty advances arms control.
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 (66)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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