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Senate Roll Call 142, 106th Congress · May 25, 1999

To request the President to advance the late Rear Admiral (retired) Husband E. Kimmel on the retired list of the Navy to the highest grade held as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, during World War II, and to advance the late Major General (retired) Walter C. Short on the retired list of the Army to the highest grade held as Commanding General, Hawaiian Department, during World War II, as was done under the Offier Personnel Act of 1947 for all other senior officers who served in positions of command during World War II.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

52 yea · 47 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 16 nay
Republican23 yea · 29 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1059 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000

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 (0.95) This is an honorific military retirement rank promotion for specific individuals, not a policy expansion/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 (52)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (1)

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