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Senate Roll Call 51, 106th Congress · March 17, 1999

A bill to state the policy of the United States regarding the deployment of a missile defense capable of defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

97 yea · 3 nayBill Passed
Democrat42 yea · 3 nay
Republican53 yea · 0 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 257

National Missile Defense Act of 1999

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 expansion”

    model(0.95): Establishing policy to deploy a national missile defense expands military defensive capabilities.

    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 (97)

Nay (3)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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