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Senate Roll Call 301, 93rd Congress · July 20, 1973

TO AMEND S. 440, A BILL TO GOVERN THE USE OF THE ARMED FORCES BY THE PRESIDENT DURING THE ABSENCE OF A DECLARATION OF WAR, BY LIMITING THE PRESIDENT'S USE OF AMERICAN CIVILIAN COMBATANTS IN THE SAME MANNER AS THE USE OF MILITARY FORCES FORCES IS LIMITED UNDER THE BILL.

34 yea · 53 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 22 nay
Republican5 yea · 32 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 440

War Powers Act

Policy area: Congressional-Presidential relations — 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): Restricts presidential authority to use civilian combatants.

    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 (34)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (12)

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