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Senate Roll Call 199, 98th Congress · July 16, 1983

TO TABLE THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT TO S. 675. THE MATHIAS AMENDMENT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD, AT THE EARLIEST PRACTICABLE DATE, MAKE EVERY REASONABLE EFFORT TO INCLUDE IN THE START NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION THE NUCLEAR-ARMED SEA-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILE WITH A VIEW TO THE COMPLETE ELIMINATION OF THAT TYPE OF WEAPON FROM THE WEAPON ARSENALS OF BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION, AND SHOULD, AS A MEANS OF ADVANCING SUCH GOAL, PROPOSE A MUTUAL AND VERIFIABLE MORATORIUM ON ANY FURTHER DEPLOYMENT OF NUCLEAR-ARMED SEA-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILES FOR THE DURATION OF THE START NEGOTIATIONS. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 11

47 yea · 40 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 26 nay
Republican33 yea · 14 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 expansion”

    model(0.90): Tabling an amendment proposing a cruise missile moratorium kills an arms restraint initiative.

    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 (47)

Nay (40)

Not voting or present (13)

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