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Senate Roll Call 179, 98th Congress · July 12, 1983

(CONTINUED) TO AMEND S. 675. THE SPECTER AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT IT IS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOVIET UNION SHOULD MEET AT THE EARLIEST PRACTICAL TIME TO DISCUSS MAJOR ISSUES IN U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS AND TO WORK FOR THE REALIZATION OF MUTUAL, EQUITABLE AND VERIFIABLE REDUCTIONS IN NUCLEAR ARMS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11

82 yea · 7 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat39 yea · 0 nay
Republican44 yea · 7 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 675 ↗

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984

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): Sense of Senate resolution advocating nuclear arms reduction favors military restraint.

    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 (83)

Nay (7)

Not voting or present (10)

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