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Senate Roll Call 574, 99th Congress · August 8, 1986

TO ADOPT DIVISION I OF THE KENNEDY, MA) AMENDMENT TO S 2638, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987. THE AMENDMENT WOULD STRIKE LANGUAGE WHICH WOULD RAISE THE VALUE OF SERVICE CONTRACTS FROM $2,500 TO $1 MILLION, BELOW WHICH CONTRACTING FIRMS WOULD BE EXEMPT FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE SERVICE CONTRACT OF 1965 AND ALSO VOID THE NONAPPLICABLITY OF THE SERVICE CONTRACT ACT TO CERTAIN MARINER SERVICE CONTRACTS.

62 yea · 34 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat46 yea · 1 nay
Republican17 yea · 34 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2638 ↗

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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Labor standards for defense service contracts do not impact military force expansion or restraint.

    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 (35)

Not voting or present (2)

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