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Senate Roll Call 616, 107th Congress · October 10, 2002

To amend the authorization for the use of the Armed Forces to cover an imminent threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction rather than the continuing threat posed by Iraq.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

30 yea · 70 nayAmendment Rejected
Democrat29 yea · 21 nay
Republican0 yea · 48 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.J.Res. 45

Further Resolution on Iraq

Policy area: International Affairs — 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(0.90): Restricting authorization to an imminent threat narrows war authority, favoring military restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:armed forces

    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 (30)

Nay (70)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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