Senate Roll Call 481, 99th Congress · May 15, 1986

TO TABLE THE SIMON, IL) AMENDMENT TO S 2395 UNIFORMED SERVICES RETIREMENT COST REDUCTION ACT. THIS AMENDMENT SOULD SPECIFY THAT COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENTS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY BE COMPUTED ON THE RETIREE'S INITIAL ANNUITY.

86 yea · 7 nay6 not voting or present

Democrat40 yea · 6 nay

Republican47 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

Uniformed Services Retirement Cost Reduction 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(0.85): Tabling an amendment that lowers military pension COLA calculations preserves higher pension growth.
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 (87)

Nay (7)

Not voting or present (6)

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