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Senate Roll Call 328, 97th Congress · October 22, 1981

TO RECONSIDER THE VOICE VOTE BY WHICH THE SENATE REJECTED THE KASTEN AMENDMENT TO S. 1196. THE AMENDMENT PROVIDED THAT UP TO $75 MILLION OF ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND MONIES COULD BE USED BY THE PRESIDENT AS A CONTINGENCY FUND TO GIVE ECONOMIC AID TO NATIONS WITHOUT SPECIFIC CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL SO LONG AS THE HOUSE AND SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEES WERE NOTIFIED 15 DAYS IN ADVANCE. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 12

49 yea · 24 nay26 not voting or present
Democrat11 yea · 23 nay
Republican38 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1196

International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981

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.

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.85): Reconsidering a vote rejection advances spending for a $75 million contingency fund.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (49)

Nay (25)

Not voting or present (26)

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