Senate Roll Call 484, 99th Congress · May 15, 1986

TO ADOPT HR 4420 MILITARY RETIREMENT REFORM, THE MEASURE CREATING A REVISED RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR NEW MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES, CHANGING THE METHOD FOR CALCULATING COST- OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENTS, AND INSERTING THE TEXT OF S 2395, THE SENATE COMPANION MEASURE, IN PLACE OF TEXT AFTER THE ENACTING CLAUSE. THE BILL CUTS THE ANNUITY FOR THOSE RETIRING AFTER 20 YEARS FROM 50% OF BASIC PAY TO 44%.

92 yea · 1 nay6 not voting or present

Democrat46 yea · 0 nay

Republican46 yea · 2 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 restraint”
model(0.95): Passes military retirement reform that cuts retirement annuities for service members.
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 (92)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (6)

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