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Senate Roll Call 444, 97th Congress · December 2, 1981

TO AMEND THE COHEN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 4995 WITH A MODIFIED AMENDMENT. THE MODIFIED AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT $334,000,000 SHALL BE AVAILABLE ONLY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RELATED TO INITIAL DEPLOYMENT OF THE MX MISSILE IN NONSUPERHARDENED EXISTING SILOS IN A MANER COMPATIBLE WITH A PERMANENT BASING MODE WHICH COULD INCLUDE THE ADDITION TO EXISTING SILOS OF BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE, THE PROVISION OF LOCATION UNCERTAINTY FOR OFFENSIVE MISSILES AND DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS, AND SUPERHARDENING AND SUBSEQUENT DEPLOYMENT IN A PERMANENT BASING MODE TO BE RECOMMENDED TO THE CONGRESS BY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE NO LATER THAN JULY 1, 1983. THE ORIGINAL COHEN AMENDMENT LIMITS THE USE OF FUNDS FOR MX BASING. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 19

90 yea · 4 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 2 nay
Republican49 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4995 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1982

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(0.85): Funding research and development for MX missile deployment expands military 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 (93)

Nay (4)

Not voting or present (3)

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