Senate Roll Call 203, 98th Congress · July 18, 1983
(CONTINUED) TO AMEND S. 675 TO PROVIDE THAT NONE OF THE FUNDS IN THE ACT MAY BE OBLIGATED OR EXPANDED TO TEST ANY EXPLOSIVE OR INERT ANTI-SATELLITE WARHEADS AGAINST OBJECTS IN SPACE UNLESS THE PRESIDENT DETERMINES AND CERTIFIES TO THE CONGRESS THAT (A) THE UNITED STATES IS ENDEAVORING, IN GOOD FAITH, TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE SOVIET UNION A MUTUAL AND VERIFIABLE BAN ON ANTI-SATELLITE WEAPONS, AND (B) PENDING AGREEMENT ON SUCH A BAN, TESTING OF EXPLOSIVE OR INERT ANTI-SATELLITE WARHEADS AGAINST OBJECTS IN SPACE BY THE UNITED STATES IS NECESSARY TO AVERT CLEAR AND IRREVOCABLE HARM TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY. SEE NOTE(S) 11
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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(0.90): Restricting anti-satellite warhead testing promotes military restraint and arms control.
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 (91)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (9)
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Frank R. LautenbergDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
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