Senate Roll Call 582, 99th Congress · August 9, 1986

TO TABLE THE MELCHER, MT) AMENDMENT TO S 2638 THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987, WHICH WOULD REDUCE AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS FOR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION BY 15 PERCENT.

93 yea · 4 nay3 not voting or present

Democrat43 yea · 3 nay

Republican50 yea · 1 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 an amendment to cut military research funding prevents military 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 (93)

Nay (4)

Not voting or present (3)

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