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Senate Roll Call 332, 98th Congress · November 8, 1983

TO AMEND H.R. 4185 TO ADD BACK INTO THE BILL $124.4 MILLION IN FUNDS FOR BINARY WEAPONS. (THE VICE-PRESIDENT VOTED YES TO BREAK THE 46-46 TIE; MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 22

46 yea · 46 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 31 nay
Republican35 yea · 18 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4185 ↗

Department of Defense Appropriation 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(0.95): Adding funding for binary chemical weapons expands military weapons systems.

    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 (49)

Nay (49)

Not voting or present (2)

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