Senate Roll Call 587, 99th Congress · August 9, 1986

TO TABLE THE BYRD, WV) AMENDMENT TO S 2638, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1987, WHICH WOULD AMEND SECTION 232 OF THE TRADE EXPANSION ACT OF 1962, TO IMPROVE ITS ADMINISTRATION WITH RESPECT TO IMPORTS THAT THREATEN NATIONAL SECURITY.

50 yea · 43 nay7 not voting or present

Democrat3 yea · 43 nay

Republican47 yea · 0 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 (0.85) Trade administration for national security imports is a trade issue rather than direct 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 (50)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (7)

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