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Senate Roll Call 551, 97th Congress · March 18, 1982

TO AMEND S. 391, A BILL ESTABLISHING CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR THE DISCLOSURE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IDENTIFYING AN INDIVIDUAL ENGAGED IN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. THE BRADLEY AMENDMENT SPECIFIES THAT FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PENALTY, HE MUST HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN A PATTERN OF ACTIVITIES TO IDENTIFY AND EXPOSE COVERT AGENTS WORKING FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. (MOTION FAILED)

37 yea · 59 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat28 yea · 16 nay
Republican9 yea · 42 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 391 ↗

Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1981

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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Requiring proof of a pattern of activities restricts the scope of criminal prosecution.

    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 (37)

Nay (59)

Not voting or present (3)

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