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Senate Roll Call 463, 99th Congress · April 29, 1986

TO TABLE THE MELCHER, MT) AMENDMENT TO S CON RES 120, BUDGET RESOLUTION. MELCHER'S AMENDMENT WOULD TRANSFER $21 MILLION FROM THE NATIONAL DEFENSE BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR 1987 TO THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT BUDGET AUTHORITY IN ORDER TO FUND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY GENERATION THROUGH (CONTINUED) MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC GENERATORS.

79 yea · 18 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 15 nay
Republican46 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The amendment is a budget-neutral reallocation of funds from defense to energy research.

    Tagged by: keyword:budget resolution

    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 (79)

Nay (18)

Not voting or present (3)

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