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Senate Roll Call 473, 99th Congress · May 7, 1986

TO TABLE THE AMENDMENT BY DECONCINI, AZ) TO S 2295 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REORGANIZATION ACT. THE AMENDMENT WOULD PROHIBIT THE SALE, DONATION, OR OTHER TRANSFER OF STINGER ANTIAIRCRAFT MISSILES TO DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN AND ANGOLA UNLESS CERTAIN CONDITIONS ARE MET AS DETERMINED BY THE PRESIDENT.

63 yea · 34 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 29 nay
Republican44 yea · 5 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2295 ↗

Barry Goldwater Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 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): Tabling an amendment restricting missile transfers allows military aid to proceed.

    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 (63)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (3)

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