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Senate Roll Call 146, 99th Congress · July 11, 1985

TO AMEND S. 995 TO EXTEND SANCTIONS TO THE SOVIET UNION, POLAND, AFGHANISTAN, MOZAMBIQUE, ANGOLA, ETHOPIA, EAST GERMANY, LIBYA, SYRIA, IRAN, CUBA, CHINA AND ANY OTHER COUNTRY THAT THE PRESIDENT CERTIFIES HAS A RECORD OF VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS EQUAL TO OR WORSE THAN THAT OF SOUTH AFRICA, OR ANY COUNTRY THAT HAS FACILITATED ACTS OF TERRORISM AGAINST U.S. PERSONS.

37 yea · 57 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat8 yea · 38 nay
Republican29 yea · 19 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 995

Anti-Apartheid Action Act of 1985

Policy area: International Affairs — 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) Extending foreign economic sanctions is foreign policy/trade measures, not military expansion or restraint.

    Tagged by: keyword:afghanistan

    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 (37)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (6)

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