Senate Roll Call 573, 99th Congress · August 8, 1986

TO TABLE THE KERRY, MA) AMENDMENT TO S 2638, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987, WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT THE TESTING OF AN ANTISATELLITE WEAPON AGAINST AN OBJECT IN SPACE UNTIL THE SOVIET UNION HAD CONDUCTED SUCH A TEST.

55 yea · 43 nay2 not voting or present

Democrat13 yea · 34 nay

Republican42 yea · 9 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987

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 a moratorium on anti-satellite weapon testing allows testing to continue.
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 (55)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (2)

Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote

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