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Senate Roll Call 581, 99th Congress · August 9, 1986

TO TABLE THE MELCHER, MT) AMENDMENT TO S 2638, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987, WHICH WOULD REDUCE THE AUTHORIZATION BY AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO 20 PERCENT OF ANY PENTAGON FUNDS THAT REMAIN UNOBLIGATED AS OF THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 1986.

89 yea · 8 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 8 nay
Republican51 yea · 0 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 PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.95): Tabling an amendment to reduce defense spending blocks military restraint, supporting military expansion.

    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 (89)

Nay (8)

Not voting or present (3)

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