Senate Roll Call 580, 99th Congress · August 9, 1986

TO TABLE THE GLENN, OH) AMENDMENT TO S 2638, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987, WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FROM ENTERING INTO CONTRACTS WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND FOREIGN FIRMS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT RESEARCH IN CONNECTION WITH THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE THAT COULD BE REASONABLY PERFORMED BY A UNITED STATES FIRM.

33 yea · 64 nay3 not voting or present

Democrat4 yea · 42 nay

Republican29 yea · 22 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Contracting preference for US firms over foreign firms on SDI is a procurement policy issue.
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 (33)

Nay (64)

Not voting or present (3)

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