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Senate Roll Call 595, 99th Congress · August 12, 1986

TO TABLE THE DODD, CT) AMENDMENT TO HR 5052, THE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT FUNDS FROM BEING USED TO SUPPORT MILITARY ACTIONS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO RESULT IN THE LOSS OF CIVILIAN LIVES IN NICARAGUA.

51 yea · 47 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat7 yea · 39 nay
Republican44 yea · 8 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 military actions causing civilian casualties rejects military restraint.

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

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A policy rider limiting military actions that cause civilian harm is incidental to fiscal spending.

    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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