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Senate Roll Call 594, 99th Congress · August 12, 1986

TO TABLE THE BYRD, WV) AMENDMENT TO HR 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD RESTRICT THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE WHICH MAY BE PROVIDED TO THE NICARAGUAN "CONTRAS" BY THE CIA, PENTAGON, AND OTHER AGENCIES TO ONLY THAT SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS.

51 yea · 47 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat4 yea · 42 nay
Republican47 yea · 5 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5052 ↗

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 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(0.90): Tabling an amendment restricting unauthorized agency aid to Contras removes military restraint.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Congressional authorization restrictions on agency aid involve oversight rather than general spending expansion.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (51)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (2)

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