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Senate Roll Call 601, 97th Congress · May 12, 1982

TO TABLE THE BAKER MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE BY WHICH THE ROTH MOTION WAS REJECTED. THE ROTH MOTION WAS TO TABLE THE BENSTEN AMENDMENT TO THE ROTH AMENDMENT TO S. 2248 IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. THE ROTH AMENDMENT ESTABLISHES AN OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE BENSTEN AMENDMENT THE INSPECTOR GENERAL WOULD BE MORE AUTONOMOUS. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 30

42 yea · 51 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 2 nay
Republican0 yea · 49 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Procedural motion regarding Department of Defense Inspector General oversight is neutral on military power.

    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 (42)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (7)

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