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Senate Roll Call 382, 97th Congress · November 17, 1981

TO AMEND S. 1802, A BILL APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1982 FOR FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS, BY PROVIDING THAT NONE OF THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED OR MADE AVAILABLE PURSUANT TO THE ACT SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO ANY COUNTRY IN WHICH ON NOVEMBER, 21, 1979, THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY AND OTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT PROPERTY WAS ATTACKED, AND IN WHICH ATTACKED AMERICAN CITIZENS DIED, AND WHICH HAS NOT PAID FULL COMPENSATION IN UNITED STATES DOLLARS TO THE UNITED STATES GOVENRMENT FOR ALL DAMAGE DONE TO U.S. GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, FOR ALL DAMAGE DONE TO PROPERTY OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS, FOR ALL EXPENSES INCURRED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY AS A RESULT (CONTINUED) OF THE ATTACK, AND FOR THE LOSS OF LIFE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS AND OF EMPLOYEES OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. (MOTION FAILED)

36 yea · 55 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat30 yea · 12 nay
Republican6 yea · 44 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1802

Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1982

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Foreign policy rider restricting foreign aid based on embassy attacks.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (37)

Nay (56)

Not voting or present (7)

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