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Senate Roll Call 496, 98th Congress · June 13, 1984

TO TABLE THE ARMSTRONG MODIFIED AMENDMENT TO THE ARMSTRONG PERFECTING AMENDMENT TO THE GLENN AMENDMENT TO S. 2723. THE GLENN AMENDMENT PROVIDES A NEW GI EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. THE ORIGINAL ARMSTRONG PERFECTING AMENDMENT ESTABLISHES TWO NEW PROGRAMS OF EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR VETERANS OF PEACETIME SERVICE. THE ARMSTRONG MODIFIED AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT NO PAYMENTS FOR SUCH PROGRAMS SHALL BE PROVIDED UNLESS THERE IS AN APPROPRIATION. (THIS AMENDMENT IS A REACTION TO THE POINT OF ORDER RAISED AGAINST THE ORIGINAL ARMSTRONG AMENDMENT THAT IT CREATED AN (CONTINUED) ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM WHICH IS A VIOLATION OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974.) (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 28

47 yea · 45 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 30 nay
Republican34 yea · 15 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2723 ↗

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 (0.80) Procedural vote on a nested budget point of order requirement for appropriations.

    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 (45)

Not voting or present (8)

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