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Senate Roll Call 595, 97th Congress · May 11, 1982

TO TABLE THE SPECTER AMENDMENT TO S. 2248, PROVIDING THAT IT IS THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD, AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE, ACT TO CONVENE A SUMMIT MEETING WITH LEADERS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SEEKING TO REDUCE THE RISK THAT NUCLEAR WAR WOULD OCCUR FROM ANY CAUSE AND TO ESTABLISH A MEANS FOR BETTER CONTROLLING THE USE, AND REDUCING THE STOCKS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS; AND, FURTHER THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS SHOULD, AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE, SHOULD RESPOND TO ANY INVITATION EXTENDED TO HIM BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO ATTEND SUCH A SUMMIT MEETING. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 30

32 yea · 60 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat7 yea · 37 nay
Republican25 yea · 24 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2248 ↗

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1983

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(0.90): Tabling a sense of Congress resolution seeking US-Soviet nuclear arms reductions blocks a military restraint proposal.

    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 (33)

Nay (61)

Not voting or present (6)

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