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Senate Roll Call 183, 99th Congress · September 17, 1985

TO TABLE THE SYMMS, ID) AMENDMENT TO S 1200, TO PROHIBIT THE UNITED STATES FROM EXTENDING CREDIT TO ANY NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY WHICH ALLOWS SOVIET SHIPS, CAPABLE OF TRANSPORTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, TO USE ITS PORTS.

66 yea · 30 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 6 nay
Republican26 yea · 24 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1200

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Policy area: Immigration — 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.

  • ImmigrationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Foreign credit and Soviet ship restrictions do not affect immigration.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”

    model(0.85): Tabling an anti-Soviet credit restriction avoids a hawkish military expansion measure.

    Tagged by: keyword:nuclear weapons

    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 (66)

Nay (30)

Not voting or present (4)

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