Skip to content
Their Record

Senate Roll Call 238, 98th Congress · September 15, 1983

TO TABLE DIVISION 4 OF THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 353. DIVISION 4 OF THE HELMS AMENDMENT STATES THAT IT IS THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD DIRECT (CONTINUED) THE UNITED STATES NEGOTIATORS AT THE STRATEGIC ARMS REDUCTION TALKS AT GENEVA TO LINK THE POSSIBLE SUCCESS OF SUCH TALKS WITH THE WILLINGNESS OF THE SOVIET UNION TO ABIDE BY INTERNATIONAL LAW AS A RESPONSIBLE MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY OF NATIONS, PAYING SPECIFIC ATTENTION TO THE KAL 007 MASSACRE, SOVIET VIOLATIONS OF THE HELSINKI ACCORDS, THE SOVIET INVASION AND SUBJUGATION OF AFGHANISTAN, THE REPRESSION OF POLAND AND ITS FREE LABOR MOVEMENT, AND THE USE OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS IN CONTRAVENTION OF EXISTING TREATIES. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 13

82 yea · 14 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 2 nay
Republican41 yea · 12 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

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 (0.90) Tabling a non-binding sense-of-Congress amendment on START negotiations is procedural and non-binding.

    Tagged by: keyword:afghanistan

    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 (82)

Nay (14)

Not voting or present (4)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.