Senate Roll Call 103, 99th Congress · June 4, 1985
TO AMEND S. 1160 TO PROVIDE THAT, OF THE FUNDS AUTHORIZED FOR THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE, $800,000,000 IS AVAILABLE ONLY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NON-NUCLEAR BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS, TO BE DEPLOYED WITHIN FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986
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 (0.75) Restricts SDI scope while pushing deployment timeline, making policy direction ambiguous.
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 (33)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- David Lyle Boren
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Pete V. Domenici
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (62)
- Mark Andrews
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (5)
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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