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Senate Roll Call 167, 99th Congress · July 30, 1985

TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S 1160, THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL 1986.

94 yea · 5 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 3 nay
Republican49 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1160 ↗

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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.95): Adopting military appropriations provides funding to expand defense capabilities.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.95): Adopting an appropriations conference report authorizes federal spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (94)

Nay (5)

Not voting or present (1)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.