House Roll Call 541, 99th Congress · May 7, 1986

TO ADOPT H J RES 589, A RESOLUTION TO PROHIBIT THE ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSED SALE OF MISSILES TO SAUDI ARABIA.

356 yea · 62 nay10 not voting or present

Democrat221 yea · 18 nay

Republican136 yea · 45 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 589 ↗

A joint resolution prohibiting the proposed sales of certain missiles to Saudi Arabia.

Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance — 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.

TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Blocking an foreign arms sale is foreign policy rather than standard commercial trade protectionism.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (359)

Nay (64)

Not voting or present (10)

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