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Senate Roll Call 585, 99th Congress · August 9, 1986

TO TABLE THE MOYNIHAN, NY) AMENDMENT TO S 2638, THE (CONTINUED) NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987, WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FROM SUBSIDIZING THE SALE OF TRANSFER OF GOODS OR SERVICES TO COMMUNIST COUNTRIES.

72 yea · 24 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 13 nay
Republican39 yea · 11 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 PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Prohibiting trade subsidies to communist countries does not directly relate to military expansion or 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 (72)

Nay (24)

Not voting or present (4)

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