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Senate Roll Call 532, 99th Congress · June 25, 1986

TO ADOPT THE BYRD AMENDMENT TO HR 4151, DIPLOMATIC SECURITY AND ANTITERRORISM ACT, WHICH WOULD EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE UNITED STATES, SO LONG AS SOVIET MILITARY FORCES OCCUPY AFGHANISTAN, SHOULD SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN TO REGAIN THE SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF THEIR NATION; AND, FURTHER, THAT THE SECRETARY OF STATE SHOULD DETERMINE WHETHER THE ACTIONS OF SOVIET FORCES AGAINST THE AFGHAN PEOPLE CONSTITUTE THE INTERNATIONAL CRIME OF GENOCIDE AND, IF SO, SHALL REPORT HIS FINDINGS TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS, WITH RECOMMENDED ACTIONS, AND REVIEW UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO CONTINUED RECOGNITION OF THE SOVIET PUPPET GOVERNMENT IN KABUL TO DETERMINE WHETHER SUCH RECOGNITION IS IN THE INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES.

94 yea · 0 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 0 nay
Republican48 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4151

Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986

Policy area: International Affairs — 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Non-binding sense-of-the-Senate resolution regarding Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan.

    Tagged by: keyword:afghanistan

    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 (96)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (4)

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