Senate Roll Call 579, 99th Congress · August 8, 1986

TO TABLE THE WILSON, CA) AMENDMENT TO S 2638, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987, WHICH WOULD PREVENT FUNDING FOR THE FULL SCALE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SMALL MOBILE INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE OR FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF ANY MORE THAN 50 MX MISSILES UNLESS THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CERTIFIES THAT BOTH WEAPONS WOULD BE ABLE TO SURVIVE AN ENEMY ATTACK AND ALSO COST MORE FOR AN ENEMY TO DESTROY THEM THAN IT WOULD BE TO BUILD THEM.

64 yea · 30 nay6 not voting or present

Democrat45 yea · 1 nay

Republican19 yea · 29 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 limits on ICBM and MX missile funding allows deployment and development.
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 (64)

Nay (30)

Not voting or present (6)

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