Senate Roll Call 485, 98th Congress · June 7, 1984

TO AMEND S. 2723 TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD INSIST THAT THE PERTINENT MEMBER NATIONS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO) MEET OR EXCEED THEIR PLEDGES FOR AN ANNUAL INCREASE IN DEFENSE SPENDING DURING FISCAL YEAR 1984 AND FISCAL YEAR 1985 OF AT LEAST 3 PERCENT REAL GROWTH; AND THAT JAPAN FURTHER INCREASE ITS DEFENSE SPENDING IN FISCAL YEAR 1984 AND FISCAL YEAR 1985 IN FURTHERANCE OF INCREASED UNITY, EQUITABLE SHARING OF OUR COMMAND DEFENSE BURDEN, AND INTERNATIONAL STABILITY. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 28

91 yea · 3 nay6 not voting or present

Democrat43 yea · 0 nay

Republican48 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

Omnibus Defense Authorization Act, 1985

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Non-binding sense of Congress resolution encouraging increased defense spending by allies.
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)

Nay (3)

Not voting or present (6)

Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
Gary Warren HartDid not vote
Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
Roger William JepsenDid not vote
Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote

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