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Senate Roll Call 584, 99th Congress · August 9, 1986

TO TABLE THE SIMON, IL) AMENDMENT TO S 2638, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987, WHICH WOULD INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF SPECIAL INCENTIVE PAY FROM $7.3 MILLION TO $18.3 MILLION THAT MAY BE PAID TO MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES WHO ARE PROFICIENT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

57 yea · 39 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 34 nay
Republican45 yea · 5 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 restraint”

    model(0.85): Tabling an amendment that increases special incentive pay for military personnel blocks 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 (57)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (4)

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